Name
ORD( )
Synopsis
ORD(string
)
This function returns an ordinal value, the position of a character in the ASCII character set, of the first character from the left in a string given.
SELECT ORD('A'), ORD('a'); +----------+----------+ | ORD('A') | ORD('a') | +----------+----------+ | 65 | 97 | +----------+----------+
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