processing arduino connection difficulty - arduino

Question

i am trying to send char's from processing to arduino, but arduino only recognizes 2 of them,
the problem is with the '2' char
when i press the 's' key the processing code is sending the '2' char because i can see the arduino rx led lighting but the motor does nothing,
with the '1' or '0' chars i have no problem,
i switched the '2' in the arduino code to correspond to drive_forward and then to drive_reverse, but the one that had '2' char assigned to it did not work in both cases,
as i said the '1'and '0' char are sent and received well
i guess it is something in the arduino code, but i don't know what
arduino code:
int motor1 = 4;
int motor2 = 5;
char val;
// --------------------------------------------------------------- Setup
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
// Setup motors
pinMode(motor1, OUTPUT);
pinMode(motor2, OUTPUT);
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------- Loop
void loop() {
if (Serial.available()>0)
{ // If data is available to read,
val = Serial.read(); // read it and store it in val
}
if (val == '2'){
drive_forward();
}
if (val == '1'){
drive_reverse();
}
if (val == '0'){
motor_stop();
}
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drive
void motor_stop(){
digitalWrite(motor1, LOW);
digitalWrite(motor2, LOW);
}
void drive_forward(){
digitalWrite(motor1, HIGH);
digitalWrite(motor2, LOW);
delay(15);
digitalWrite(motor1, LOW);
digitalWrite(motor2, LOW);
delay(15);
}
void drive_reverse(){
digitalWrite(motor2, HIGH);
digitalWrite(motor1, LOW);
delay(15);
digitalWrite(motor2, LOW);
digitalWrite(motor1, LOW);
delay(15);
}
processing code:
import processing.serial.*;
Serial myPort;
void setup()
{
size(200,200);
myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[2], 9600);
}
void draw() {
}
void keyPressed() {
if (key == 'w' || key == 'W')
{
myPort.write('1');
println("1");}
if (key == 's' || key == 'S')
{
myPort.write('2');
println("2");}
}
void keyReleased() {
myPort.write('0');
println("0");
}

Answer 1

As #tailedmouse said, send data as integer.
Processing code:
//skipped some code
void keyPressed() {
if (key == 'w' || key == 'W') {
myPort.write(1);
}
if (key == 's' || key == 'S') {
myPort.write(2);
println("2");
}
}
void keyReleased() {
myPort.write(0);
println("0");
}
Arduino code:
//skipped some code.
void loop() {
if (Serial.available()>0) {
// If data is available to
read, val = Serial.read();
// read it and store it in val
}
if (val == 2) {
drive_forward();
}
if (val == '1') {
drive_reverse();
}
if (val == '0') {
motor_stop();
}
}