Syntax
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ORD(str)

Description
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If the leftmost character of the string str is a multi-byte character, returns
the code for that character, calculated from the numeric values of its
constituent bytes using this formula:

(1st byte code)
+ (2nd byte code x 256)
+ (3rd byte code x 256 x 256) ...

If the leftmost character is not a multi-byte character, ORD() returns the
same value as the ASCII() function.

Examples
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SELECT ORD('2');
+----------+
| ORD('2') |
+----------+
|       50 |
+----------+

URL: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/ord/