VS:Ord

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Description

Function Ord returns the corresponding ASCII number of the specified character value. Parameter Ord specifies the character.

FUNCTION Ord(
       v   :CHAR) : INTEGER;

def vs.Ord(v):
    return INTEGER

Parameters

v

CHAR

ASCII character.

Remarks

The encoding used is Apple MacRoman. This leads to a number of troubles if you are on Windows and use characters above ASCII 128.

Example

VectorScript

PROCEDURE Main;
VAR
str :STRING;
cnt :INTEGER;
BEGIN
str := GetText(FSActLayer);
FOR cnt := 1 TO Len(str) DO
AlrtDialog(Concat(Ord(Copy(str, cnt, 1))));
END;
RUN(Main);

Version

Availability: from All Versions

See Also

VS Functions:

VS:Chr

VS Functions: [[VS:Chr]]