Appendix A: ASCII Character Chart

Sometimes in Flash, you might need to use the ASCII value of a character instead of the actual character. When that happens, you can obtain the value you need by using an ASCII chart that lists each character along with its associated numerical value.

The first half of the ASCII character chart is printed in Table A.1. Please note that the first 32 characters ”labeled 0 through 31 ”and value 127 are unprintable. The second half of the ASCII chart is widely available on the Web. It contains many characters that have special punctuation around them. The characters , ¢, §, and are examples from the second half of the chart. Because the second half is rarely used, I'm not going to print them all here. Instead, use an Internet search engine such as Google for a full list of ASCII characters if you need them.

 

Table A.1: ASCII Character Chart

Display Character	Decimal Value	Explanation
Ctrl+space		Null
Ctrl+a	1	Start of header
Ctrl+b	2	Start of text
Ctrl+c	3	End of text
Ctrl+d	4	End of transmission
Ctrl+e	5	Enquiry
Ctrl+f	6	Acknowledgment
Ctrl+g	7	Bell
Ctrl+h	8	Backspace
Ctrl+i	9	Horizontal tab
Ctrl+j	10	Line feed
Ctrl+k	11	Vertical tab
Ctrl+l	12	Form feed
Ctrl+m	13	Carriage return
Ctrl+n	14	Shift out
Ctrl+o	15	Shift in
Ctrl+p	16	Data link escape
Ctrl+q	17	Device control 1
Ctrl+r	18	Device control 2
Ctrl+s	19	Device control 3
Ctrl+t	20	Device control 4
Ctrl+u	21	Negative acknowledgment
Ctrl+v	22	Synchronization character
Ctrl+w	23	End-of-transmission block
Ctrl+x	24	Cancel
Ctrl+y	25	End of message
Ctrl+z	26	Substitute
Ctrl+[	27	Escape
Ctrl+\	28	Forms separator
Ctrl+]	29	Group separator
Ctrl+6	30	Record separator
Ctrl+/	31	Unit separator
space	32	Space
!	33	Exclamation point
"	34	Quotation mark
#	35	Number sign
$	36	Dollar sign
%	37	Percent sign
&	38	Ampersand
'	39	Apostrophe
(	40	Left parenthesis
)	41	Right parenthesis
*	42	Asterisk
+	43	Plus sign
,	44	Comma
-	45	Hyphen
.	46	Period
/	47	Slash
	48	Digit zero
1	49	Digit one
2	50	Digit two
3	51	Digit three
4	52	Digit four
5	53	Digit five
6	54	Digit six
7	55	Digit seven
8	56	Digit eight
9	57	Digit nine
:	58	Colon
;	59	Semicolon
<	60	Less than sign
=	61	Equal to sign
>	62	Greater than sign
?	63	Question mark
@	64	At sign
A	65	Uppercase A
B	66	Uppercase B
C	67	Uppercase C
D	68	Uppercase D
E	69	Uppercase E
F	70	Uppercase F
G	71	Uppercase G
H	72	Uppercase H
I	73	Uppercase I
J	74	Uppercase J
K	75	Uppercase K
L	76	Uppercase L
M	77	Uppercase M
N	78	Uppercase N
O	79	Uppercase O
P	80	Uppercase P
Q	81	Uppercase Q
R	82	Uppercase R
S	83	Uppercase S
T	84	Uppercase T
U	85	Uppercase U
V	86	Uppercase V
W	87	Uppercase W
X	88	Uppercase X
Y	89	Uppercase Y
Z	90	Uppercase Z
[	91	Left bracket
\	92	Backslash
]	93	Right bracket
^	94	Caret
_	95	Underline
`	96	Accent grave
a	97	Lowercase a
b	98	Lowercase b
c	99	Lowercase c
d	100	Lowercase d
e	101	Lowercase e
f	102	Lowercase f
g	103	Lowercase g
h	104	Lowercase h
i	105	Lowercase i
j	106	Lowercase j
k	107	Lowercase k
l	108	Lowercase l
m	109	Lowercase m
n	110	Lowercase n
o	111	Lowercase o
p	112	Lowercase p
q	113	Lowercase q
r	114	Lowercase r
s	115	Lowercase s
t	116	Lowercase t
u	117	Lowercase u
v	118	Lowercase v
w	119	Lowercase w
x	120	Lowercase x
y	121	Lowercase y
z	122	Lowercase z
{	123	Left brace
	124	Pipe
}	125	Right brace
~	126	Tilde
Delete	127	Delete