Re: What does ord mean?

2009-03-05 Thread Bill Stephenson
Okay, but now I'm curious. What does ord mean? (or do) Kindest Regards, -- Bill

Re: What does ord mean?

2009-03-05 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Bill Stephenson bi...@perlhelp.com wrote: Okay, but now I'm curious. What does ord mean? (or do) It's an abbreviation of ordinal, and returns the position of the character within its charset - i.e., its ordinal value, as opposed to its text value. Perl's ord()

Re: What does ord mean?

2009-03-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:17:38PM -0600, Bill Stephenson wrote: Okay, but now I'm curious. What does ord mean? (or do) perldoc -f ord -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world What profiteth a man, if he win a flame war, yet lose his cool?