I am having trouble doing ascii conversion from a string

Question

The first code I am posting is supposed to write 222 which is workign fne,I have similar code as part of second program that I am posting which is not working in fact giving me negative result,running on cygwin,trying to get ascii # of a str

int array[]={2,2,2};
int ugh=0;
int ok=2;
for(int i=0;i<3;i++)
    {
        ugh+= (array[i]*pow(10,(ok-i)));
    }


int array[size];
    int mesnum=0;
for (int i=0;i<size;i++)
    {
        array[i]=int(message[i]);
        cout<<array[i]<<endl;
    }
     int something=size-1;
     cout<<something;
    for(int i=0;i<size;i++)
    {
        mesnum+= (array[i]*pow(10,(something-i)));
        cout<<mesnum<<endl;
    }

    return mesnum;