Ascii (character)  -> Number (0 to 255)
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Ascii returns the Macintosh ASCII code of character. If there is more than one character in the string, Ascii returns the code of the first character.

The  Char function is the counterpart of Ascii. It returns the character that an ASCII code represents.

Uppercase and lowercase characters are considered equal within a comparison. You can use Ascii to test for the case when you want to distinguish between uppercase and lowercase characters. 

For example, this line retunes  True:

      ("A"="a")

This line however, returns  False:

      (Ascii("A") = Ascii("a"))


The following example returns the ASCII value of the first character of the string, in this case "A":

      GetAsc:= Ascii("ABC")         ` GetAsc gets 65



See also:  Ascii Codes, Char