xHarbour Reference Documentation > Function Reference

AscPos()

Determines the ASCII code of a specified character in a string.

Syntax

AscPos( <cString>, [<nPos>] ) --> nASCIICode

Arguments

<cString>

This is a character string to query for an ASCII code.

<nPos>

Optionally, the ordinal position of the character to query can be specified as a numeric value. It defaults to Len(cString), the last character.

Return

The function returns the ASCII code of the character at the specified position as a numeric value.

Note:  the function exists for compatibility reasons. The [ ] operator can be applied to character strings in xHarbour and is more efficient for extracting a single character.

Info

See also:	[ ] (string), Asc()
Category:	CT:String manipulation , Character functions
Source:	ct\ascpos.c
LIB:	xhb.lib
DLL:	xhbdll.dll

Example

// The example shows two different ways of obtaining the
// ASCII code of a single character in a string.

   PROCEDURE Main
      LOCAL cString := "xHarbour"

      // compatibility
      ? AscPos( cString )        // result: 114
      ? AscPos( cString, 2 )     // result:  72

      // xHarbour [] operator
      ? Asc( cString[-1] )       // result: 114
      ? Asc( cString[2] )        // result:  72
   RETURN