{
    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "ordchr",
    "section": "3am",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ordchr/3am/json",
    "generated": "2026-06-15T16:45:08Z",
    "synopsis": "@load \"ordchr\"\nnumber = ord(\"A\")\nstring = chr(65)",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "ordchr - convert characters to strings and vice versa\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "@load \"ordchr\"\n\nnumber = ord(\"A\")\nstring = chr(65)\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "The ordchr extension adds two functions named ord().  and chr(), as follows.\n\nord()  This  function  takes  a  string  argument, and returns the numeric value of the first\ncharacter in the string.\n\nchr()  This function takes a numeric argument and returns a string whose first  character  is\nthat represented by the number.\n\nThese functions are inspired by the Pascal language functions of the same name.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "EXAMPLE": {
            "content": "@load \"ordchr\"\n...\nprintf(\"The numeric value of 'A' is %d\\n\", ord(\"A\"))\nprintf(\"The string value of 65 is %s\\n\", chr(65))\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3am), fnmatch(3am), fork(3am), inplace(3am), read‐\ndir(3am), readfile(3am), revoutput(3am), rwarray(3am), time(3am).\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "AUTHOR": {
            "content": "Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "COPYING PERMISSIONS": {
            "content": "Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2018, Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n\nPermission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual page provided the\ncopyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.\n\nPermission  is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual page under the\nconditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is  distrib‐\nuted under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.\n\nPermission  is  granted  to copy and distribute translations of this manual page into another\nlanguage, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this  permission  no‐\ntice may be stated in a translation approved by the Foundation.\n\n\n\nFree Software Foundation                     Feb 02 2018                                 ORDCHR(3am)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "ordchr - convert characters to strings and vice versa",
    "flags": [],
    "examples": [
        "@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": [
        {
            "name": "filefuncs",
            "section": "3am",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/filefuncs/3am/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "fnmatch",
            "section": "3am",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/fnmatch/3am/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "fork",
            "section": "3am",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/fork/3am/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "inplace",
            "section": "3am",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/inplace/3am/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "dir",
            "section": "3am",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dir/3am/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "readfile",
            "section": "3am",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/readfile/3am/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "revoutput",
            "section": "3am",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/revoutput/3am/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "rwarray",
            "section": "3am",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/rwarray/3am/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "time",
            "section": "3am",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/time/3am/json"
        }
    ]
}