Re: What does ord mean?

On Mar 5, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Bill Stephenson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Okay, but now I'm curious. What does ord mean? (or do)
>
>
> It's an abbreviation of "ordinal," and returns the position of the 
> character
> within its charset - i.e., its ordinal value, as opposed to its text 
> value.

Thank you Sherm. I appreciate the clear descriptive answer.

And thank you too, David.

macbill% perldoc -f ord

        ord EXPR
        ord     Returns the numeric (the native 8-bit encoding, like 
ASCII or
                EBCDIC, or Unicode) value of the first character of 
EXPR.  If
                EXPR is omitted, uses $_.

                For the reverse, see "chr".  See perlunicode and 
encoding for
                more about Unicode.

I like Sherm's explanation better than the Perl Docs though ;)

Kindest Regards,

--
Bill Stephenson