ASC()

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Class

Expressions and Type Conversion


Purpose

Function to convert an ASCII character to a number


Syntax

ASC(<expC>)


See Also

ATOH(), 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