ASCII

The ASCII built-in translates strings into integers and integers or keywords into strings. If a string parameter is passed, the ASCII value of the first character in the string is returned. If an integer parameter is passed, the character equal to that ASCII value is returned. If a keyword parameter is passed, the ASCII value generated by that key is returned. Note that ASCII values are determined locally by each machine.

Syntax:

string | integer := ASCII ( {integer | keyword | string})

Examples:

The following example provides translations of the form-feed to and from its ASCII value. The common ASCII value of 12 is assumed.

FF$STRING := ASCII (12); ! A string containing the form-feed character is returned

FF$VALUE := ASCII (FF$STRING); ! Integer value, 12 is returned

The next example will insert a line-feed into the current buffer.

COPY_TEXT ( ASCII (10));

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