1Char(3)                          OCaml library                         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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31       Return the character with the given ASCII code.
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34       Raises Invalid_argument if the argument is outside the range 0--255.
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38       val escaped : char -> string
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41       ters escaped following the lexical conventions of OCaml.   All  charac‐
42       ters  outside  the ASCII printable range (32..126) are escaped, as well
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49       Deprecated.  Functions operating on Latin-1 character  set  are  depre‐
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53       Convert  the given character to its equivalent lowercase character, us‐
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60       Deprecated.  Functions operating on Latin-1 character  set  are  depre‐
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64       Convert  the given character to its equivalent uppercase character, us‐
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71       Convert the given character to its equivalent lowercase character,  us‐
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91       An alias for the type of characters.
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97       The comparison function for characters, with the same specification  as
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99       module Char to be passed as  argument  to  the  functors  Set.Make  and
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