chr - get character this number represents


NAME

chr - get character this number represents


SYNOPSIS

chr NUMBER

chr


DESCRIPTION

Returns the character represented by that NUMBER in the character set. For example, chr(65) is "A" in either ASCII or Unicode, and chr(0x263a) is a Unicode smiley face. Note that characters from 128 to 255 (inclusive) are by default not encoded in UTF-8 Unicode for backward compatibility reasons (but see the encoding manpage).

If NUMBER is omitted, uses $_.

For the reverse, use ord in the perlfunc manpage.

Note that under the bytes pragma the NUMBER is masked to the low eight bits.

See the perlunicode manpage and the encoding manpage for more about Unicode.

 chr - get character this number represents