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