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From: edemaine@ug.cs.dal.ca (Erik Demaine)
Subject: Re: Character -> ASCII conversion?
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Erik Demaine (me, edemaine@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:
: I'm using Common Lisp and am wondering if there is a way to convert character
: to an integer, using ASCII. There doesn't seem to be a function (integer) that
: will convert it ... Any suggestions?

Thanks to Andrew Philpot, the solution is CHAR-INT, for example:

USER(1): (char-int #\A)
65

Ciao!
Erik
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