char

 

 

Description

The char Function converts an ASCII numeric value into a text character. You can specify an argument using in the range 1 to 255.

When to use

Use the char to convert a numeric to an ASCII character.

 

Syntax

(char num)



Name Description AIS Types
num A integer from 1 to 255Integer


Returns:

The character equivalent of the integer argument

 

Examples

Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.

Example_String_char_001

These examples use the char function to convert the ASCII numerical representation to its corresponding text character in the ASCII table.

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments.

Integer Text

Here are also a number of links to functions having arguments with any of these data types.

++(Symbol) +=(Symbol) +(Complex) +(Number)
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vectorSigmoidInnerProduct(NumVector) vectorSineInnerProduct(NumVector) vectorSquareInnerProduct(NumVector) vectorTanInnerProduct(NumVector)
vectorTanhInnerProduct(NumVector) writeln(ByteVector) writeln(String) writeln(Text)
year(Date)

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