#chr NUMBER

#chr

Returns the character represented by that NUMBER in the character set. For example, chr(65) is "A" in either ASCII or Unicode, and chr(0x263a) is a Unicode smiley face.

If NUMBER is omitted, uses $_.

For the reverse, use "ord".

Note that characters from 128 to 255 (inclusive) are by default internally not encoded as UTF-8 for backward compatibility reasons.

See perlunicode for more about Unicode.

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