st: Converting char to ascii

[Andrew Felton <afelton2@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

Is there an inverse of the char() function?  So that I
could get ascii("a") = 97?  -findit ascii- and a web
search didn't seem to turn up anything.  Thank you,

Andrew Felton
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