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SEQ

Returns the character code corresponding to a specified character.

Synopsis

SEQ(char)

Arguments

char An expression that resolves to a character or string. If char is a string, SEQ returns the value of the first character.

Description

The SEQ function takes a character and returns the corresponding character code, a base-10 integer value. Its inverse, the CHAR function takes a numeric code and returns the corresponding character.

If char is the null string, SEQ returns -1. If char is a string the first character of which is either a space or a tab, SEQ returns 32.

The Caché MVBasic SEQ function returns the numeric value for a single character. The corresponding ObjectScript $ASCII function can take a string of characters and return the numeric value for a specific character by specifying its position in the string.

Note:

SEQ and UNISEQ are functionally identical.

Examples

The following example uses the SEQ function to return the numeric code associated with the specified character:

PRINT SEQ('A');    ! Returns 65.
PRINT SEQ('a');    ! Returns 97.
PRINT SEQ('%');    ! Returns 37.
PRINT SEQ('>');    ! Returns 62.

The following example uses the SEQ function to return lowercase letter characters and associated numeric codes of the Russian alphabet. On a Unicode version of Caché it returns the Russian letters; on an 8-bit version of Caché it returns a -1 (indicating a null string) for each letter:

letter=1072
FOR x=1 TO 32
  glyph=CHAR(letter)
  PRINT SEQ(glyph),glyph
  letter=letter+1
NEXT

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