VB.NET Language Pocket Reference

Name

Asc, AscW Functions — Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings

Synopsis

Asc(string)
AscW(str)

string, str required; String or Char

Any expression that evaluates to a nonempty string

Return Value

An Integer that represents the character code of the first character of the string; the range for the returned value is 0 - 255 on nonDBCS systems, and -32768 to 32767 on DBCS systems

Description

Returns an Integer representing the character code for the first character of the string passed to it. All other characters in the string are ignored.