Converts an LMBCS (Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set) string to an ASCII string.

Syntax

@Ascii( string )
@Ascii( string ; [ALLINRANGE] )

Parameters

string

Text or text-list. An LMBCS string.

Keyword. Optional. Specifies that @Ascii should return a null string ("") if any characters in the original string cannot be represented by ASCII codes 32 to 127.

newString

Text or text-list. The original string, with each character converted to an ASCII-compliant character. Any character that can't be represented by ASCII codes 32 to 127 is replaced with a question mark (?). If you specify [ALLINRANGE] and there are characters that can't be represented by ASCII codes 32 to 127, returns a null string ("").

@Ascii first converts the string into ASCII-compliant characters, replacing any unrepresented characters with question marks, and then, if [ALLINRANGE] is True, checks for question marks within the string. This means that if the original string contains a question mark and [ALLINRANGE] is specified, a null string is returned even if the entire string can be represented by ASCII codes 32-127.

Example

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