Re: What does ord mean?

Hello,

Patches are welcome to the Perl POD.

jonasbn

On 07/03/2009, at 18.08, Bill Stephenson wrote:

> 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
>



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