CHAR

CHAR

The CHAR function returns the character in the ASCII character set occupying the ordinal position of the argument.

Syntax 1

function char (arg-1)

Syntax 2

$char (arg-1)

Arguments

• arg-1 must be a numeric data item or literal greater than zero.

Result

The function returns the character in the ASCII character set occupying the ordinal position of arg-1.

The ordinal position corresponds to the ASCII character's decimal value minus one.

Examples

Example - Display the ASCII character at the ordinal position 66, that is the upper case letter "A".

display function char(66).