[DUG] Ord value of String character

[Stephen Barker]

Works for me:

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  ShowMessage(IntToStr(Ord(Edit1.Text[1])));
end;

Regards,
Steve 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurence Bevan [mailto:Laurence at master.co.nz] 
> Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2006 9:31 a.m.
> To: delphi at ns3.123.co.nz
> Subject: [DUG] Ord value of String character
> 
> This is probably simple but I can't get my head around it 
> this morning. I have a string variable of which I want to 
> obtain the ASCII value of the first character in the string. 
> 
> I've tried Ord(String[1]) but keep getting an error. Do I 
> need to cast the first character to a Byte type or something?
> 
> Cheers,
> Laurence
> 
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