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<H1>ORDCHR</H1>
Section: GNU Awk Extension Modules (3am)<BR>Updated: Feb 02 2018<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
ordchr - convert characters to strings and vice versa
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
@load &quot;ordchr&quot;
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number = ord(&quot;A&quot;)
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string = chr(65)
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
The
<I>ordchr</I>
extension adds two functions named
<B>ord()</B>.
and
<B>chr()</B>,
as follows.
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="1"><B>ord()</B>
<DD>
This function takes a string argument, and returns the
numeric value of the first character in the string.
<DT id="2"><B>chr()</B>
<DD>
This function takes a numeric argument and returns a string
whose first character is that represented by the number.
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These functions are inspired by the Pascal language functions
of the same name.
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<H2>EXAMPLE</H2>
<PRE>
@load &quot;ordchr&quot;
...
printf(&quot;The numeric value of 'A' is %d\n&quot;, ord(&quot;A&quot;))
printf(&quot;The string value of 65 is %s\n&quot;, chr(65))
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<I>GAWK: Effective AWK Programming</I>,
<I>filefuncs</I>(3am),
<I>fnmatch</I>(3am),
<I>fork</I>(3am),
<I>inplace</I>(3am),
<I>readdir</I>(3am),
<I>readfile</I>(3am),
<I>revoutput</I>(3am),
<I>rwarray</I>(3am),
<I>time</I>(3am).
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
Arnold Robbins,
<B><A HREF="mailto:arnold@skeeve.com">arnold@skeeve.com</A></B>.
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<H2>COPYING PERMISSIONS</H2>
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Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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