Inverse of CHAR function

[Chris Sharman]

>Last question of the day:
>
>Does anyone know what function is the inverse of the CHAR function?  IE.
>function x("A")=65.

A fine question.
Don't use the CHARACTERS function as per the example in the docs:

define itemx char*20 = encrypt(characters(phone),"INDEX")

They carefully leave the recovery of 'phone' as an exercise for the reader, and
a very challenging exercise it is too, since there is no inverse CHAR function
available ...

Techniques available (all with limitations) are:

3GL call (from Quick).
INDEX function (ie INDEX("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",ch)+64 )
Redefinition in the dictionary.

Good luck,
Chris
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