.TH ascii "" "" "/rdb Command"
.PC "Return the ASCII value of a character"
\fBascii \fIcharacter...\fR
.PP
.II ASCII
The command
.B ascii
converts each of the characters in its first argument
to a space-delimited series of numbers.
You can use this command to find the internal computer representation
of a character.
Any strings following the first are ignored.
If you have spaces in your string, be sure to put
quotation marks around them.
.SH Example
The command
.DM
	ascii aA1
.DE
.PP
produces:
.DM
	97 65 49 
.DE
.PP
The command
.DM
	ascii ' '
.DE
.PP
produces:
.DM
	32 
.DE
.PP
Note that the single space character, enclosed within apostrophes,
is converted to its ASCII code in decimal (32).
.SH "See Also"
.B
chr
.R
.br
COHERENT Lexicon:
.B
ASCII
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