<function name="byte" parent="string" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Returns the given string's characters in their numeric ASCII representation.</description>⤶ <description>⤶ Returns the given string's characters in their numeric ASCII representation.⤶ <warning>This function will throw an error if the slice length is greater than 8000 characters.</warning>⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Shared and Menu</realm> <args> <arg name="string" type="string">The string to get the chars from.</arg> <arg name="startPos" type="number" default="1">The first character of the string to get the byte of.</arg> <arg name="endPos" type="number" default="startPos">The last character of the string to get the byte of.</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="vararg">Numerical bytes</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Prints the first 4 numerical bytes from the string "Hello, World!"</description> <code>print(string.byte("Hello, World!", 1, 4))</code> <output> 72 101 108 108 </output> </example>