VMS Help RTL Routines, LIB$, LIB$ICHAR  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    The Convert First Character of String to Integer routine converts
    the first character of a source string to an 8-bit ASCII integer
    extended to a longword.

    Format

      LIB$ICHAR  source-string

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