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Function A function calculates a result according to the current value of its inputs. A function has no internal data and is not linked to declared instances. - Get the ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange - ASCII provides a one-to-one mapping between alphanumeric characters and a digital one-byte word. code of a character within a string.

Inputs

Input	Data Type	Range	Unit	Default	Description
IN	STRING				Input string.
POS	DINT				Position Position means a point in space which is described by different coordinates. Depending on the used system and transformation it can consist of a maximum of six dimensions (coordinates).This means three Cartesian coordinates in space and coordinates for the orientation. In ACS there can be even more than six coordinates. If the same position is described in different coordinate systems the values of the coordinates are different. of the character within the string. The first valid character position is 1.

Input

Data Type

Range

Unit

Default

Description

STRING

Input string.

POS

DINT

Position Position means a point in space which is described by different coordinates. Depending on the used system and transformation it can consist of a maximum of six dimensions (coordinates).This means three Cartesian coordinates in space and coordinates for the orientation. In ACS there can be even more than six coordinates. If the same position is described in different coordinate systems the values of the coordinates are different. of the character within the string.

The first valid character position is 1.

Outputs

Output	Data Type	Range	Unit	Description
CODE	DINT			Either: The ASCII code of the selected character. 0 (zero) if the position is invalid.

Output

Data Type

Range

Unit

Description

CODE

DINT

Either:

The ASCII code of the selected character.
0 (zero) if the position is invalid.

Remarks

None

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- The other input is the operand of the function.

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     AND_MASK MSK
     ST       CODE

ST Language Example

CODE := ASCII (IN, POS);