Converting between characters and numbers.
Author: Scott Penrose
You want to convert characters to their codepoint number value or vice-versa
Source code: 01-04converting-values.p6
#!/usr/bin/env perl6 use v6; my $char = 'a'; my $num = $char.ord; say $num; my $char2 = $num.chr; say $char2; my $copyright = '©'; say $copyright ~ " : " ~ $copyright.ord ~ " : " ~ $copyright.ord.chr; $char = 'foo'; # ords returns the codepoints of all char in a string say $char ~ " : " ~ $char.ords;