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Lua - Character and Byte Representations Code Example

The code for Character and Byte Representations

-- Byte value of first character
print(string.byte("Hello, world"))

-- Byte value of third character
print(string.byte("Hello, world",3))

-- Byte value of the first character from last
print(string.byte("Hello, world",-1))

-- Byte value of the second character from the last
print(string.byte("Hello, world",-2))

-- Internal Numeric ASCII Conversion
print(string.char(72))

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Output:
72
108
100
108
H
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