code/2—retrieve the internal numeric representation of a character

The code/2 primitive retrieves the internal numeric representation of a character.

$INTVAL=code($STRVAL)

code/2 arguments

Argument	Mode	Type	Description
`$STRVAL`	Input	STRING	Specifies the single character for which you want to return the numeric code
`$INTVAL`	Output	INTEGER	The numeric code of the character, returned as an integer

Use code/2 to retrieve the internal numeric code of the character specified by the $STRVAL argument and return it as an integer in the $INTVAL argument. The code is implementation-dependent. It currently is the Unicode code point.

code/2 example

$CODE = code($E.msg);