ASC()

Purpose

Function to convert an ASCII character to a number

Syntax

ASC(<expC>)

See Also

ATOH(), CHR(), ETOS(), HTOA(), LEFT(), RANK(), RIGHT(), STR(), STRZERO(), SUBSTR(), TYPE(), VAL(), VARTYPE()

Description

The ASC() function returns the numeric value of the first ASCII character from the character expression <expC>.

Example

? asc("123")
        49
? asc("Newcastle")
        78
nVar = asc("Newcastle")
        78
? type("nVar")
N

Products

Recital Server, Recital