codePointAt | Itential

The codePointAt task retrieves the Unicode value for a character at a specific position in a string. The result is a non-negative integer representing the code point value of the character at the given position.

Potential use case

This task helps with multilingual text and localization. If you have a dataset containing unique language characters, use codePointAt to return the code point value for each character and handle them according to the Unicode standard.

Properties

Incoming	Type	Description
`str`	String	Required. The string to get the Unicode value from.
`pos`	Number	The position of the character in `str` to return the code point value for. The first character is at position `0`, the second at `1`, and so on.

Outgoing	Type	Description
`codePointValue`	Number	The Unicode code point value of the character at the given `pos`. Returns `undefined` if there is no character at that position.

Example

The incoming str is "Hello World" and the pos is 1, which corresponds to the letter "e".

The first character position is 0, the second is 1, and so on.

codePointAt task with str set to Hello World and pos set to 1

The codePointValue returned is 101, which is the Unicode value for the lowercase letter "e".