| .TH ORDCHR 3am "Jan 15 2013" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules" |
| .SH NAME |
| ordchr \- convert characters to strings and vice versa |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .ft CW |
| @load "ordchr" |
| .sp |
| number = ord("A") |
| .br |
| string = chr(65) |
| .ft R |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| The |
| .I ordchr |
| extension adds two functions named |
| .BR ord() . |
| and |
| .BR chr() , |
| as follows. |
| .TP |
| .B ord() |
| This function takes a string argument, and returns the |
| numeric value of the first character in the string. |
| .TP |
| .B chr() |
| This function takes a numeric argument and returns a string |
| whose first character is that represented by the number. |
| .PP |
| These functions are inspired by the Pascal language functions |
| of the same name. |
| ... .SH NOTES |
| ... .SH BUGS |
| .SH EXAMPLE |
| .ft CW |
| .nf |
| @load "ordchr" |
| \&... |
| printf("The numeric value of 'A' is %d\en", ord("A")) |
| printf("The string value of 65 is %s\en", chr(65)) |
| .fi |
| .ft R |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .IR "GAWK: Effective AWK Programming" , |
| .IR filefuncs (3am), |
| .IR fnmatch (3am), |
| .IR fork (3am), |
| .IR inplace (3am), |
| .IR readdir (3am), |
| .IR readfile (3am), |
| .IR revoutput (3am), |
| .IR rwarray (3am), |
| .IR time (3am). |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| Arnold Robbins, |
| .BR arnold@skeeve.com . |
| .SH COPYING PERMISSIONS |
| Copyright \(co 2012, 2013, |
| Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| .PP |
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| .PP |
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| .PP |
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