ASC

The ASC() function takes the first char of a string and returns its numeric PETSCII code. If an empty string is provided, the function will return 0.

The inverse function of ASC() is chr.

Function Header

DECLARE FUNCTION ASC AS BYTE (char$ AS STRING) SHARED STATIC INLINE

Examples

PRINT ASC("a") ' will print 65
PRINT ASC("abc") ' will print 65
PRINT ASC("") ' will print 0