ASC()

    ASC() evaluates the leftmost character of a character string and
    returns its ASCII value in the IBM extended character set.

Syntax

    ASC(<exp C>)

Argument

    <expC> is the character expression to convert to a number.

Returns

    An integer numeric value in the range of 0 to 255.

Usage

    ASC() is used primarily in expressions where you need to perform
    numeric calculations on the ASCII value of a character.