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$A: Convert to ASCII‘$A(string)’ is the built-in equivalent of ‘@'...'’ or ‘@"..."’. (See Conversion to ASCII and ‘@"’: Convert string to ASCII.) Note the extra parentheses required by the built-in.
$A first expands its argument, in case it is a macro defined as a
string.