Get Ascii value of the character in oracle

By Santhosh N

This explains how to get the ascii code of the desired character in oracle.

Oracle has a function by the name, ASCII used to get the ascii code of the given character.

Syntax: ASCII (char)

Ex: select ASCII (ā€˜s’) from dual;
      This returns 115 as the result.

Note: This returns the ascii code of only one character and even though if entered more than one character, it gives the ascii code of the first entered character only

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