Re: What does ord mean?

[email protected] ("Paul G. Hackett") Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:44:09 -0500

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NO-BREAK SPACE is 00A0, which in UTF-8 is xC2 xA0.  Hex xC2 = Decimal 194.

best,

Paul

Quoting Vic Norton <[email protected]>:

> I am confused. I can't figure out what ord does. For example I've
> pasted the NO-BREAK-SPACE (00A0) between the quotation marks in the ord
> of the following line.
>    print ord(" "), "\n";
> When I run this line in a Perl script I get
>    194
> What does this 194 mean? As far as I know A0 = 10x16 = 160. And 194
> certainly can't be an octal numeral.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vic