ORDCHR(3am) GNU Awk Extension Modules ORDCHR(3am)
NAME
ordchr - convert characters to strings and vice versa
SYNOPSIS
@load "ordchr"
number = ord("A")
string = chr(65)
DESCRIPTION
The ordchr extension adds two functions named ord(). and chr(), as fol-
lows.
ord() This function takes a string argument, and returns the numeric
value of the first character in the string.
chr() This function takes a numeric argument and returns a string whose
first character is that represented by the number.
These functions are inspired by the Pascal language functions of the
same name.
EXAMPLE
@load "ordchr"
...
printf("The numeric value of 'A' is %d\n", ord("A"))
printf("The string value of 65 is %s\n", chr(65))
SEE ALSO
GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3am), fnmatch(3am),
fork(3am), inplace(3am), readdir(3am), readfile(3am), revoutput(3am),
rwarray(3am), time(3am).
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.
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