Vital.sandbox - string.byte

local ... = string.byte(input, start_at = 1, end_at = -1)

Type	Name	Description
`string`	input	String to be converted
`int`	start_at	Character position where extraction begins - negative counts from end
`int`	end_at	Character position where extraction ends - negative counts from end

Type	Name	Description
`...`	...	Numeric byte values for the specified range

Get the byte value of the first character

local byte = string.byte("A")

engine.print("info", byte) --65

Get the byte value at a specific position

local byte = string.byte("ABC", 2)

engine.print("info", byte) --66

Get multiple byte values at once

local b1, b2, b3 = string.byte("ABC", 1, 3)

engine.print("info", b1, b2, b3) --65  66  67

Use a negative index to read from the end

local last = string.byte("Hello", -1)

engine.print("info", last) --111 (character 'o')

string.byte