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Varkon MBS Programmers manual

ascii - Function

Description

Maps a character to its corresponding integer ASCII value.

Syntax

  n:=chr(c);

  int    n;
  string c*1;

Principal parameters

Optional parameters

None.

Return value

An INT value in the range 0 <= n <= 255.

Comment

If the argument c is a string variable with size greater than 1, the first character in the string is used.

Example

10 + ascii("B") evaluates to the integer value of 76 since 66 is the ASCII-code for B.

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