ordchr - convert characters to strings and vice versa
@load "ordchr" number = ord("A") string = chr(65)
ORDCHR(3) GNU Awk Extension Modules ORDCHR(3) 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)) ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+------------------+ |Availability | text/gawk | +---------------+------------------+ |Stability | Volatile | +---------------+------------------+ SEE ALSO GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3), fnmatch(3), fork(3), inplace(3), readdir(3), readfile(3), revoutput(3), rwarray(3), time(3). 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. NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-5.1.1.tar.xz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk. Free Software Foundation Feb 02 2018 ORDCHR(3)