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How to return the ASCII code of a letter?

Posted in 1999

Topics: Stored Procedures & SPL, Connectivity: ESQL/C, 4GL & Embedded SQL

Russ_Evans@doh.state.fl.us — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Does SPL or 4GL have a way to return the numeric ASCII value of a character? eg. The space character is ascii value 32.

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Jonathan Leffler — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Russ_Evans@doh.state.fl.us wrote: > Does SPL or 4GL have a way to return the numeric ASCII value of > a character? eg. The space character is ascii value 32. Assuming a vaguely recent version of I4GL, the ORD(' ') function would return 32 for the space argument. It returns the ascii value of the first letter of its argument string -- or the value converted to an argument string. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>

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Paul Wheeler — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Sorry folks, guess who wasn't awake this morning! Try the FGL_LASTKEY("a") function, this will return 97 for a lower case a, 65 for upper case A, Sorry for the confusion earlier. Paul Wheeler Leaderflush+Shapland Nottingham.

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