You are viewing the version of this documentation from Perl 5.6.0. View the latest version
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 (but only within the scope of a use utf8). For the reverse, use "ord". See utf8 for more about Unicode.

If NUMBER is omitted, uses $_.