1Char(3)                            OCamldoc                            Char(3)
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NAME

6       Char - Character operations.
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Module

9       Module   Char
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Documentation

12       Module Char
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16       Character operations.
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23       val code : char -> int
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25       Return the ASCII code of the argument.
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29       val chr : int -> char
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31       Return the character with the given ASCII code.  Raise Invalid_argument
32       Char.chr if the argument is outside the range 0--255.
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36       val escaped : char -> string
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38       Return a string representing the given character, with special  charac‐
39       ters  escaped  following the lexical conventions of OCaml.  All charac‐
40       ters outside the ASCII printable range (32..126) are escaped,  as  well
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47       Deprecated.   Functions  operating  on Latin-1 character set are depre‐
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51       Convert the given character  to  its  equivalent  lowercase  character,
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58       Deprecated.   Functions  operating  on Latin-1 character set are depre‐
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62       Convert the given character  to  its  equivalent  uppercase  character,
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67       val lowercase_ascii : char -> char
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89       An alias for the type of characters.
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95       The  comparison function for characters, with the same specification as
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