Difference between revisions of "ASC()"

Revision as of 10:55, 24 March 2009

Class

Expressions and Type Conversion

Purpose

Function to convert an ASCII character to a number

Syntax

ASC(<expC>)

See Also

CHR(), ETOS(), HTOA(), STR(), STRZERO(), 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 Database Server, Recital Mirage Server, Recital Terminal Developer