Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

what perl operator do i use to convert text such as the letter A into its respective ASCII number and then back again. so i can use some form of primitive encryption techniques? vb uses "ASC(letter)" does perl have s'thing similar???

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Re: ASCII CONVERSION
by cianoz (Friar) on Nov 17, 2000 at 04:19 UTC