Perl Programming/Keywords/ord

The ord keyword

ord returns the number associated with the EXPRESSION. If EXPRESSION is an empty string, the function returns 0. Without NUMBER, the contents of $_ are used.

ord is the reverse of chr.

Syntax

 ord EXPRESSION  ord 

Examples

The lines

#!"C:/Programms/Perl/site/bin" use 5.10.0; $character = 'A'; say "character = '" . $character, "' corresponds to the value of " . ord $character; 

returns

number = 65 corresponds to the code 'A' character = 'A' corresponds to the value of 65 

See also

• chr