On 12/11/23 13:39, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
On 12/11/23 00:55, Kevin Pye wrote:
Seriously Todd? "What is a digit?" The characters '0' to '9' are digits.
(Unicode probably has a whole lot of others, but those will do for the
moment.)
Yes seriously. Does '9' have the ascii value of 57 or the
binary value of 9? Or do you mean a single character?
Would 'a' also be a digit? Or are digits limited to
ascii 48 to 57 or binary 0 to 9?
Maybe this will make more sense to my question:
[0] > say chr(57)
9
[0] > say ord("9")
57
I am dealing with a string, which is a collection of
characters. `"9"` in not a number. It is a character
(ascii 57) that "looks" like a number to the human eye.
This is why I wanted to know what you meant by "digit".
