[erlang-questions] what is $char ?

[黃耀賢 (Yau-Hsien Huang)]

Turn on an Erlang console and check followings.

Erlang/OTP 17 [erts-6.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10]
[hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V6.2  (abort with ^G)
1> $c.
99
2> $h.
104
3> $a.
97
4> $r.
114
5>

You got it?

/Y-H

On Friday, December 12, 2014, Leo Liu <sdl.web@REDACTED> wrote:
> The OTP erlang/doc/reference_manual/data_types.html#idm140043841877600
> says: $char ASCII value of the character char.
>
> In cases of unicode what is $char? So far I have taken it to be the
> code-point. Could someone elaborate i.e. how does erlang go from $char
> -> integer?
>
> Thanks,
> Leo
>
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Best Regards.

--- Y-H. H.
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