ASCII

Syntax

Purpose

ASCII returns the decimal representation in the database character set of the first character of char. If your database character set is 7-bit ASCII, this function returns an ASCII value. If your database character set is EBCDIC Code Page 500, this function returns an EBCDIC value. There is no similar EBCDIC character function.

Example

SELECT ASCII('Q') FROM DUAL;
 
ASCII('Q')
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        81