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# $EPIC: ascii.txt,v 1.2 2006/08/29 20:58:41 jnelson Exp $
Synopsis:
$ascii(<character list>)
Technical:
The ascii function converts a sequence of characters into a word list of codepoints. Because EPIC only supports latin-1 at this time, all of the codepoints are 0 to 255 (strictly 1 byte per codepoint). If in the future epic supports UTF8 or something like that, codepoints greater than 255 might be returned.
You can use the chr function to convert a word list of codepoints into a sequence of characters. The same caveats about encoding applies.
By definition, the ascii and chr functions are symmetrically reverse operations of each other.
Examples:
/* assume iso8859-1 character set */ $ascii(abcABC) returns "97 98 99 65 66 67" $chr($ascii(abcABC)) returns "abcABC"
Other Notes:
Some characters with the high bit set will return negative numeric values from $ascii(). Add 256 to this negative value to get its positive equivalent. The $chr() function will accept either.