ord
Description
int ord ( string string)
Returns the ASCII value of the first character of
string
. This function complements
chr(). 
Example 1. ord() example
<?php
$str = "\n";
if (ord($str) == 10) {
echo "The first character of \$str is a line feed.\n";
}
?>
You can find an ASCII-table over here: http://www.asciitable.com.
See also chr().
