[Haskell-cafe] Re: chr/ord?

Jon Fairbairn jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
Wed Apr 29 04:58:22 EDT 2009


Tim Wawrzynczak <inforichland at gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:08 PM, michael rice <[1]nowgate at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
>   My Prelude docs must be out of date because chr and ord don't seem to be
>   there. How do I access these functions?

> Michael, those functions are not in the Prelude, they're in Data.Char.

But they're not really necessary anyway:

   Prelude> fromEnum 'A'
   65
   Prelude> toEnum 42::Char
   '*'


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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
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