code position

code position

[′kōd pə′zish·ən] (computer science) A location in a data-recording medium at which data may be entered, such as the intersection of a column and a row on a punch card, at which a hole may be punched.

code position

(character)An integer that a coded character set maps toa character. A code position is normally stored ortransmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it intoa byte string.