charCodeAt

charCodeAt(content: String, position: Number): Number

Returns the Unicode for a character at the specified index.

This function fails if the index is invalid.

Name Description

Name	Description
`content`	The input string.
`position`	The index (a `Number` type) of a character in the string (as a string array). Note that the index of the first character is `0`.

content

The input string.

position

The index (a Number type) of a character in the string (as a string array). Note that the index of the first character is 0.

This example returns Unicode for the "u" at index 1 in "MuleSoft".

%dw 2.0
import * from dw::core::Strings
output application/json
---
{
  "charCodeAt" : charCodeAt("MuleSoft", 1)
}DataWeave

{ "charCodeAt": 117 }JSON

Helper function that enables charCodeAt to work with a null value.

Introduced in DataWeave version 2.4.0.