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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 follows.

       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), read‐
       dir(3am), readfile(3am), revoutput(3am), rwarray(3am), time(3am).

AUTHOR
       Arnold Robbins, arnold AT skeeve.com.

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Free Software Foundation                     Feb 02 2018                                 ORDCHR(3am)