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RANK


Returns the position of a character in the ASCII collating sequence

Language element: function
Category: character
OpenVMS specifics: ASCII collating sequence

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Syntax

RANK(x)

x
represents a character in the ASCII collating sequence.

Details

Because OpenVMS is an ASCII system, the RANK function returns an integer representing the position of a character in the ASCII collating sequence. If the length of x is greater than 1, you receive the rank of the first character in the string.
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