• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
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NAME

ord - find a character's numeric representation

SYNOPSIS

ord EXPR

ord

DESCRIPTION

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