Documentation/Calc Functions/ASC/en

Function name:
ASC

Category:
Text

Summary:
Converts full-width to half-width for ASCII and katakana characters. ASC is the complementary function to JIS.

Syntax:
ASC(Text)

Returns:
Returns a text string that comprises the converted characters.

Arguments:
Text is a string (in quotation marks) or a number, or a reference to a cell containing one of those types, that contains the characters to be converted.

Additional details:
Conversion is carried out for full-width ASCII and katakana characters, with some characters being converted in a special way (for more information on this, visit the JIS and ASC functions page located in another part of this wiki). Other characters are copied from the input string to the result string with no change.

Related LibreOffice functions:
JIS

ODF standard:
Section 6.20.2, part 2

Equivalent Excel functions:
ASC