Name
ord
Synopsis
ord expr
Description
Returns the numeric ASCII value of the first character
of expr.
If expr is omitted, it uses $_. The return value is always
unsigned.
If you want a signed value, use unpack('c', expr
).
If you want all the characters of the string converted to a list of numbers, use
unpack('C*', expr
) instead.
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