ordchr

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

AUTHOR
       Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.

COPYING PERMISSIONS
       Copyright (C) 2012, 2013, 2018, Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission  is  granted  to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
       manual page provided the copyright notice and  this  permission  notice
       are preserved on all copies.

       Permission  is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
       manual page under the conditions for verbatim  copying,  provided  that
       the  entire  resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
       permission notice identical to this one.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this  man-
       ual page into another language, under the above conditions for modified
       versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a  trans-
       lation approved by the Foundation.

Free Software Foundation          Feb 02 2018                      ORDCHR(3am)