BASIC ASC$ Function - fvdhoef/aquarius-plus GitHub Wiki
# DEPRECATED
ASC$
TYPE: plusBASIC String Function
FORMAT: ASC$ ( hexstring )
Action: Convert hex_string to an ASCII string.
- hexstring is a string containing an even number of hexadecimal digits.
- Returns a string of length 0 if the length of hexstring is 0.
- Illegal Quantity results if hexstring contains an odd number of characters or any character is not a hexadecimal digit.
Examples:
10 READ H$
20 A$=ASC$(H$)
30 DATA FF
Sets A$ to a ASCII character 255.
PRINT ASC$("30313233")
Prints
0123
-- the ascii characters for hex values 30, 31, 32, and 33.