ORD (Function)


Converts to a character code.


ORD (<Character string >)


This statement converts the first character in <Character string > to a character code.
This function returns only the first byte value of a character string. Therefore, even if the first character is kanji, the first byte of the Shift-JIS code is returned. If the character string is " ", it returns 0.


CHR$, Character Code Table (Appendix 1)


DIM li1 As Integer
li1 = ORD( "ABCDEFGH" )
'Assigns character code 65(&H41) of A to li1.


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