Getting ASCII value from a character

[Jeff Shepherd]

How can I get an ASCII value from a character? An example from 
another language would be ASCII("A") = 65.  Frontier does the reverse 
with char(65) = 'A'. I would think this function would be in the 
coercion verbs, but must have overlooked something.

And in a similar vein, which is the fastest for going though a string?

text = "This is a string"
for i=1 to sizeOf(text)
	text[i]
	string.nthChar(text, i)
	string.mid(text, i, 1)

Perhaps one of the string verbs would be slower but might be safer in 
case of addressing beyond the end of the string. True?

  - Jeff -
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