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