1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28<meta> 29<topic id="textsbasicshared03120101xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Asc Function [Runtime]</title> 31<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120101.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2004-08-27T11:23:51">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<section id="asc"> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150499"><bookmark_value>Asc function</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150499" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120101.xhp" name="Asc Function [Runtime]">Asc Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151384" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) value of the first character in a string expression.</paragraph> 44</section> 45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155555" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143267" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Asc (Text As String)</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147242" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Integer</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148473" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149415" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 51<emph>Text:</emph> Any valid string expression. Only the first character in the string is relevant.</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145609" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="9">Use the Asc function to replace keys with values. If the Asc function encounters a blank string, $[officename] Basic reports a run-time error. In addition to 7 bit ASCII characters (Codes 0-127)<comment>UFI: TL called me and asked to change this</comment>, the ASCII function can also detect non-printable key codes in ASCII code. This function can also handle 16 bit unicode characters.</paragraph> 53<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 54<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 55<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159413" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149457" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleASC</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150792" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Print ASC("A") REM returns 65</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148797" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Print ASC("Z") REM returns 90</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3163800" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Print ASC("Las Vegas") REM returns 76, since only the first character is taken into account</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148674" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">End Sub</paragraph> 61<section id="relatedtopics"> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1067B" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120102.xhp">CHR</link></paragraph> 63</section> 64</body> 65</helpdocument> 66