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gellyware

Take a look at these two commands:

Asc and Chr

'ASC
'Get character value of the first character of a String

print Asc("A") '65
Print "A"[0] '65 - equivalent index style implementation

'CHR
'Chr returns a String of length 1 containing the unicode character of the value.

print Chr(65) 'A

Also you may want to look at the docks under keyHit() and keyDown(). You will find a table for keycodes that you can use such as:

if keyHit(KEY_ESCAPE) then ...

hope this helps.