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Perl Programming/Keywords/ord
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The ord keyword
ord returns the number associated with the EXPRESSION. If EXPRESSION is an empty string, the function returns 0. Without NUMBER, the contents of $_ are used.
ord is the reverse of chr.
Syntax
ord EXPRESSION
ord
Examples
The lines
#!"C:/Programms/Perl/site/bin"
use 5.10.0;
$character = 'A';
say "character = '" . $character, "' corresponds to the value of " . ord $character; returns number = 65 corresponds to the code 'A'
character = 'A' corresponds to the value of 65
See also
chr
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