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one more question.. what is ord actually doing I thought ord makes asci characters. Please excuse my ignorance. and thanks for the help.

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Re: Re: Re: please explain this script
by davido (Cardinal) on May 28, 2004 at 15:45 UTC
    ord returns the ordinal value (usually the ascii value) of a given literal character. For example, print ord('A'); prints 65.


    Dave

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