BYTE Function

Returns one character in the ASCII or the EBCDIC collating sequence.

Category:	Character
Returned data type:	VARCHAR

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Example

Syntax

BYTE(n)

Arguments

n

specifies an integer that represents a specific ASCII or EBCDIC character.

Range	0–255
Data type	NCHAR

Details

For EBCDIC collating sequences, n is between 0 and 255. For ASCII collating sequences, the characters that correspond to values between 0 and 127 represent the standard character set. Other ASCII characters that correspond to values between 128 and 255 are available on certain ASCII operating environments, but the information those characters represent varies with the operating environment.

Example

The following statement illustrates the BYTE function:

Statements	Results
	ASCII	EBCDIC
	----+----1----+----2	----+----1----+----2
select byte(80);	P	&

BYTE Function

Syntax

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n

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