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Ord - script and chart function

Last updated: 8/31/2026

Ord() returns the Unicode code point number of the first character of the input string.Ord() returns the numeric (ASCII or Unicode) value of the first character of a string. This function is useful to evaluate or compare strings based on their underlying character codes, for example, when sorting or filtering strings with non-standard characters.

Syntax:  

Ord(text)

Return data type: integer

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