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),  readdir(3am),
       readfile(3am), revoutput(3am), rwarray(3am), time(3am).

AUTHOR

       Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.

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Free Software Foundation                           Feb 02 2018                                       ORDCHR(3am)