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Function name:
CODE
Category:
Text
Summary:
Returns a numeric code for the first character in a text string.
Syntax:
CODE("Text")
Returns:
Arguments:
Text is the text for which the code of the first character is to be found.
Codes greater than 127 may depend on your system's character mapping (for example iso-8859-1, iso-8859-2, Windows-1252, Windows-1250), and hence may not be portable.
Additional details:
The code used here does not refer to ASCII, but to the code table currently loaded.
Examples:
=CODE("Hieronymus") returns 72, =CODE("hieroglyphic") returns 104.