ASCII Character Codes

This list is helpful with the Asc and Chr functions.  Taken from  ASCII Character Set


Control Characters (mostly non-printing; most useful of these are highlighted in yellow.)

Char... Dec Hex Description
NUL 0 00 Null character
SOH 1 01 Start of heading, = console interrupt
STX 2 02 Start of text, maintenance mode on HP console
ETX 3 03 End of text
EOT 4 04 End of transmission, not the same as ETB
ENQ 5 05 Enquiry, goes with ACK; old HP flow control
ACK 6 06 Acknowledge, clears ENQ logon hand
BEL 7 07 Bell, rings the bell... (Plays Windows' default beep)
BS 8 08 Backspace, works on HP terminals/computers
HT 9 09 Horizontal tab, move to next tab stop
LF 10 0a Line Feed
VT 11 0b Vertical tab
FF 12 0c Form Feed, page eject
CR 13 0d Carriage Return
SO 14 0e Shift Out, alternate character set
SI 15 0f Shift In, resume default character set
DLE 16 10 Data link escape
DC1 17 11 XON, with XOFF to pause listings; ":okay to send".
DC2 18 12 Device control 2, block-mode flow control
DC3 19 13 XOFF, with XON is TERM=18 flow control
DC4 20 14 Device control 4
NAK 21 15 Negative acknowledge
SYN 22 16 Synchronous idle
ETB 23 17 End transmission block, not the same as EOT
CAN 24 17 Cancel line, MPE echoes !!!
EM 25 19 End of medium, Control-Y interrupt
SUB 26 1a Substitute
ESC 27 1b Escape, next character is not echoed
FS 28 1c File separator
GS 29 1d Group separator
RS 30 1e Record separator, block-mode terminator
US 31 1f Unit separator



Printing Characters (standard characters)

Char Dec Hex Description
  32 20 Space
! 33 21 Exclamation mark
" 34 22 Quotation mark (" in HTML)
# 35 23 Cross hatch (number sign)
$ 36 24 Dollar sign
% 37 25 Percent sign
& 38 26 Ampersand
` 39 27 Closing single quote (apostrophe)
( 40 28 Opening parentheses
) 41 29 Closing parentheses
* 42 2a Asterisk (star, multiply)
+ 43 2b Plus
, 44 2c Comma
- 45 2d Hyphen, dash, minus
. 46 2e Period
/ 47 2f Slant (forward slash, divide)
0 48 30 Zero
1 49 31 One
2 50 32 Two
3 51 33 Three
4 52 34 Four
5 53 35 Five
6 54 36 Six
7 55 37 Seven
8 56 38 Eight
9 57 39 Nine
: 58 3a Colon
; 59 3b Semicolon
< 60 3c Less than sign
= 61 3d Equals sign
> 62 3e Greater than sign
? 63 3f Question mark
@ 64 40 At-sign
A 65 41 Uppercase A
B 66 42 Uppercase B
C 67 43 Uppercase C
D 68 44 Uppercase D
E 69 45 Uppercase E
F 70 46 Uppercase F
G 71 47 Uppercase G
H 72 48 Uppercase H
I 73 49 Uppercase I
J 74 4a Uppercase J
K 75 4b Uppercase K
L 76 4c Uppercase L
M 77 4d Uppercase M
N 78 4e Uppercase N
O 79 4f Uppercase O
P 80 50 Uppercase P
Q 81 51 Uppercase Q
R 82 52 Uppercase R
S 83 53 Uppercase S
T 84 54 Uppercase T
U 85 55 Uppercase U
V 86 56 Uppercase V
W 87 57 Uppercase W
X 88 58 Uppercase X
Y 89 59 Uppercase Y
Z 90 5a Uppercase Z
[ 91 5b Opening square bracket
\ 92 5c Reverse slant (Backslash)
] 93 5d Closing square bracket
^ 94 5e Caret (Circumflex)
_ 95 5f Underscore
` 96 60 Opening single quote
a 97 61 Lowercase a
b 98 62 Lowercase b
c 99 63 Lowercase c
d 100 64 Lowercase d
e 101 65 Lowercase e
f 102 66 Lowercase f
g 103 67 Lowercase g
h 104 68 Lowercase h
i 105 69 Lowercase i
j 106 6a Lowercase j
k 107 6b Lowercase k
l 108 6c Lowercase l
m 109 6d Lowercase m
n 110 6e Lowercase n
o 111 6f Lowercase o
p 112 70 Lowercase p
q 113 71 Lowercase q
r 114 72 Lowercase r
s 115 73 Lowercase s
t 116 74 Lowercase t
u 117 75 Lowercase u
v 118 76 Lowercase v
w 119 77 Lowercase w
x 120 78 Lowercase x
y 121 79 Lowercase y
z 122 7a Lowercase z
{ 123 7b Opening curly brace
| 124 7c Vertical line
} 125 7d Closing curly brace
~ 126 7e Tilde (approximate)
 127 7f Delete (rubout), cross-hatch box



Extended Character Set (ANSI)

Char Dec Hex Description
€ 128 80

129 81 Note:  does not display in this compiled html help file
‚ 130 82
ƒ 131 83
„ 132 84
… 133 85
† 134 86
‡ 135 87
ˆ 136 88
‰ 137 89
Š 138 8A
‹ 139 8B
Π140 8C

141 8D Note:  does not display in this compiled html help file
Ž 142 8E

143 8F Note:  does not display in this compiled html help file
� 144 90 Note:  does not display in this compiled html help file
‘ 145 91
’ 146 92
“ 147 93
” 148 94
• 149 95
– 150 96
— 151 97
˜ 152 98
™ 153 99
š 154 9A
› 155 9B
œ 156 9C

157 9D Note:  does not display in this compiled html help file
ž 158 9E
Ÿ 159 9F
  160 A0
¡ 161 A1
¢ 162 A2
£ 163 A3
¤ 164 A4
¥ 165 A5
¦ 166 A6
§ 167 A7
¨ 168 A8
© 169 A9
ª 170 AA
« 171 AB
¬ 172 AC
­
 173 AD Note:  may not display in this compiled html help file
® 174 AE
¯ 175 AF
° 176 B0
± 177 B1
² 178 B2
³ 179 B3
´ 180 B4
µ 181 B5
182 B6
· 183 B7
¸ 184 B8
¹ 185 B9
º 186 BA
» 187 BB
¼ 188 BC
½ 189 BD
¾ 190 BE
¿ 191 BF
À 192 C0
Á 193 C1
 194 C2
à 195 C3
Ä 196 C4
Å 197 C5
Æ 198 C6
Ç 199 C7
È 200 C8
É 201 C9
Ê 202 CA
Ë 203 CB
Ì 204 CC
Í 205 CD
Î 206 CE
Ï 207 CF
Ð 208 D0
Ñ 209 D1
Ò 210 D2
Ó 211 D3
Ô 212 D4
Õ 213 D5
Ö 214 D6
× 215 D7
Ø 216 D8
Ù 217 D9
Ú 218 DA
Û 219 DB
Ü 220 DC
Ý 221 DD
Þ 222 DE
ß 223 DF
à 224 E0
á 225 E1
â 226 E2
ã 227 E3
ä 228 E4
å 229 E5
æ 230 E6
ç 231 E7
è 232 E8
é 233 E9
ê 234 EA
ë 235 EB
ì 236 EC
í 237 ED
î 238 EE
ï 239 EF
ð 240 F0
ñ 241 F1
ò 242 F2
ó 243 F3
ô 244 F4
õ 245 F5
ö 246 F6
÷ 247 F7
ø 248 F8
ù 249 F9
ú 250 FA
û 251 FB
ü 252 FC
ý 253 FD
þ 254 FE
ÿ 255 FF