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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/ordchr.3am b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/ordchr.3am new file mode 100644 index 00000000..186cf616 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/ordchr.3am @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +.TH ORDCHR 3am "Jan 15 2013" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules" +.SH NAME +ordchr \- convert characters to strings and vice versa +.SH SYNOPSIS +.ft CW +@load "ordchr" +.sp +number = ord("A") +.br +string = chr(65) +.ft R +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.I ordchr +extension adds two functions named +.BR ord() . +and +.BR chr() , +as follows. +.TP +.B ord() +This function takes a string argument, and returns the +numeric value of the first character in the string. +.TP +.B chr() +This function takes a numeric argument and returns a string +whose first character is that represented by the number. +.PP +These functions are inspired by the Pascal language functions +of the same name. +.\" .SH NOTES +.\" .SH BUGS +.SH EXAMPLE +.ft CW +.nf +@load "ordchr" +\&... +printf("The numeric value of 'A' is %d\en", ord("A")) +printf("The string value of 65 is %s\en", chr(65)) +.fi +.ft R +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR "GAWK: Effective AWK Programming" , +.IR filefuncs (3am), +.IR fnmatch (3am), +.IR fork (3am), +.IR inplace (3am), +.IR readdir (3am), +.IR readfile (3am), +.IR revoutput (3am), +.IR rwarray (3am), +.IR time (3am). +.SH AUTHOR +Arnold Robbins, +.BR arnold@skeeve.com . +.SH COPYING PERMISSIONS +Copyright \(co 2012, 2013, +Free Software Foundation, Inc. +.PP +Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of +this manual page provided the copyright notice and this permission +notice are preserved on all copies. +.ig +Permission is granted to process this file through troff and print the +results, provided the printed document carries copying permission +notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph +(this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual page). +.. +.PP +Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +manual page under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that +the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +permission notice identical to this one. +.PP +Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this +manual page into another language, under the above conditions for +modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in +a translation approved by the Foundation. +.\" vim: set filetype=nroff : |