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From: spear@wam.umd.edu (Eric Anthony Spear)
Subject: help: character to integer
Date: 1996/10/01
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Date: 1996-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
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I've tried to find the answer in the RM, but I haven't had any luck.

Is there a function, either in a package or as an attribute, that can work
like this BASIC function:

i = ASC("X")

That is, the function returns the ASCII value of the given character.

Thanks in advance for any help.