Re: What does ord mean?

[Paul G. Hackett]

NO-BREAK SPACE is 00A0, which in UTF-8 is xC2 xA0.  Hex xC2 = Decimal 194.

best,

Paul

Quoting Vic Norton <v...@norton.name>:

I am confused. I can't figure out what ord does. For example I've
pasted the NO-BREAK-SPACE (00A0) between the quotation marks in the ord
of the following line.
   print ord(" "), "\n";
When I run this line in a Perl script I get
   194
What does this 194 mean? As far as I know A0 = 10x16 = 160. And 194
certainly can't be an octal numeral.

Regards,

Vic