ANSI Conversion

Visual FoxPro has a function called ASC which takes a given
string and returns the ANSI character code corresponding to the
first letter in a string. I'm converting the FoxPro to Java and
Oracle and need a Java equivalent for the ASC function. Can
anyone help?

Pardon me, Glenn,
I may have misunderstood your question. If you want to do the
conversion directly in java (not using Oracle -- that's what may
have confused me, but your question still belongs in the JVM
forum -- not the J2EE forum), then a simple perusal of the
javadoc (available online from http://java.sun.com/docs) for
class 'java.lang.String' reveals the following method:
public char charAt(int index)
Returns the character at the specified index. An index
ranges from 0 to length() - 1.
Then you could use this method from class 'java.lang.Character':
public static int getNumericValue(char ch)
Returns the Unicode numeric value of the character as a
nonnegative integer.
Note that java uses Unicode -- so the above may not give you what
you expect.
Good Luck,
Avi.

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