in reply to Getting numeric value of an alphabetic string

See chr and ord. You can also use unpack to retrieve the character codes for a string in one go:

$ perl -le 'print for unpack("C*","foo")' 102 111 111

-xdg

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Re^2: Getting numeric value of a alphabetic string
by chakkaln (Sexton) on Aug 05, 2005 at 07:11 UTC
    Thanks a lot. Thats exactly what I am looking for. Will try it and see whether I can make use of this methods. Cheers Nagesh