Section 11,38: ICHAR

 ICHAR (character)

 A function that returns the ASCII value of the argument.  The
 argument must be a character expression with a length of one.

 +------+---------+----------+------------+-------------+        
 | Args | Generic | Specific |  Argument  | Result Type |
 +------+---------+----------+------------+-------------+
 |  1   |   --    | ICHAR    | CHARACTER  | INTEGER*2   |
 |      |         |  --      | CHARACTER  | INTEGER*4   |
 |      |see note |  --      | CHARACTER  | INTEGER*8   |
 +------+---------+----------+------------+-------------+

 NOTE: INTEGER*8 is only available on AXP systems.