Re: Problem with the function "character"

CHAR-CODE and CODE-CHAR are your friends :)

Cheers

Marco



On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 11:07 America/New_York, Norbert Lehmann  
wrote:

> Hello everybody
>
> how can I obtain for a ASCII code the corresponding character ?  
> Usually,
> I used the function "character" for this purpose. For example (in  
> CLisp,
> but also in Macintosh Common Lisp)
>
>   [1]> (character 97)
>   #\a
>
> where 97 is the ASCII code for the lower A. Unfortunately,
> in Corman Lisp, I obtain the error message "The object 97 cannot be
> coerced to a character". Equivalently, using "coerce", the same error
> message is obtained in Corman Lisp.
>
> Thanks + I wish you a nice day
> Norbert
>
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