1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsbasicshared03120101xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Asc Function [Runtime]</title> 28<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120101.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="asc"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150499"> 34<bookmark_value>Asc function</bookmark_value> 35</bookmark> 36<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> 37<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> 38</section> 39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155555" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143267" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Asc (Text As String)</paragraph> 41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147242" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 42<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Integer</paragraph> 43<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148473" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149415" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 45<emph>Text:</emph> Any valid string expression. Only the first character in the string is relevant.</paragraph> 46<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> 47<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 48<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159413" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149457" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleASC</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150792" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Print ASC("A") REM returns 65</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148797" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Print ASC("Z") REM returns 90</paragraph> 53<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> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148674" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">End Sub</paragraph> 55<section id="relatedtopics"> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1067B" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120102.xhp">CHR</link></paragraph> 57</section> 58</body> 59</helpdocument> 60