Coldfusion equivalent function of codePointAt

Question

In javascript there is a function codePointAt which returns A number representing the code point value of the character at the given index. Is there a UDF or built in function similar to codePointAt function?

var icons = '☃★♲';

console.log(icons.codePointAt(0));
// expected output: "9733"

Answer 1

It's asc() in ColdFusion. The function only converts a single (the first) character though, so you have to extract the position of the desired character in a string by yourself, using mid() for example.

<cfscript>

    icons = '☃★♲';
    icon = mid(icons, 2, 1);

    writeOutput( asc(icon) );
    // expected output: "9733"

</cfscript>