Need help converting a php function to coldfusion

Ok, i need to find a way in coldfusion to do the php equivalent of the 'ord' function.
What i am doing is reading some info from a database that has some odd characters in it. when i use the php ord function on something that is supposed to be a - it is converted to 150 which is the right ascii code for a -
but when i use ASC in coldfusion, i get 65430. let me know if you want me to post the code im working on, thanks a ton.

Make sure that you're trimming out any spaces, and only using Asc() on one character at a time. If you're trying to strip out any odd characters that do not agree with how you want to display the data, you can also try using a REReplace and replace those funky characters with "".

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