ORD

ORD

The ORD function returns the ordinal position in the ASCII character set of an alphanumeric value.

Syntax 1

function ord (arg-1)

Syntax 2

$ord (arg-1)

Arguments

• arg-1 must be a alphanumeric data item or literal.

Result

The function returns a number that is the ordinal position in the ASCII character set of the character identified by arg-1.

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

Examples

Example - Display the ordinal position of the upper case letter "A" .

display function ord("A").