1ORDCHR(3am) GNU Awk Extension Modules ORDCHR(3am)
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6 ordchr - convert characters to strings and vice versa
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9 @load "ordchr"
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11 number = ord("A")
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15 The ordchr extension adds two functions named ord(). and chr(), as
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18 ord() This function takes a string argument, and returns the numeric
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21 chr() This function takes a numeric argument and returns a string
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24 These functions are inspired by the Pascal language functions of the
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28 @load "ordchr"
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30 printf("The numeric value of 'A' is %d\n", ord("A"))
31 printf("The string value of 65 is %s\n", chr(65))
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34 GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3am), fnmatch(3am),
35 fork(3am), inplace(3am), readdir(3am), readfile(3am), revoutput(3am),
36 rwarray(3am), time(3am).
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39 Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.
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