Functions / String Functions And Operators

ascii

Returns the numeric code of the first character of the argument.

Reading PG 18current·documented in 27 of 27 versions, 7.1 to 20

7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Signatures & examples

ascii ( text ) → integer

Returns the numeric code of the first character of the argument. In UTF8 encoding, returns the Unicode code point of the character. In other multibyte encodings, the argument must be an ASCII character.

ascii('x') → 120

Version history 6

12 → 13 changed
8.3 → 8.4 changed
8.2 → 8.3 changed
8.1 → 8.2 changed
8.0 → 8.1 changed
7.2 → 7.3 changed

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