ord Convert the first byte of a string to a value between 0 and 255 &reftitle.description; intord stringcharacter Interprets the binary value of the first byte of character as an unsigned integer between 0 and 255. If the string is in a single-byte encoding, such as ASCII, ISO-8859, or Windows 1252, this is equivalent to returning the position of a character in the character set's mapping table. However, note that this function is not aware of any string encoding, and in particular will never identify a Unicode code point in a multi-byte encoding such as UTF-8 or UTF-16. This function complements chr. &reftitle.parameters; character A character. &reftitle.returnvalues; An integer between 0 and 255. &reftitle.examples; ]]> ]]> &example.outputs; Byte 0 of $str has value 240 Byte 1 of $str has value 159 Byte 2 of $str has value 144 Byte 3 of $str has value 152 &reftitle.seealso; chr An ASCII-table mb_ord IntlChar::ord