.TH "Char" 3o source: 2016-12-21 OCamldoc "OCaml library"
.SH NAME
Char \- Character operations.
.SH Module
Module   Char
.SH Documentation
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Module
.BI "Char"
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.B sig  end

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Character operations\&.

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.I val code 
: 
.B char -> int
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Return the ASCII code of the argument\&.

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.I val chr 
: 
.B int -> char
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Return the character with the given ASCII code\&.
Raise 
.B Invalid_argument "Char\&.chr"
if the argument is
outside the range 0\-\-255\&.

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.I val escaped 
: 
.B char -> string
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Return a string representing the given character,
with special characters escaped following the lexical conventions
of OCaml\&.

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.I val lowercase 
: 
.B char -> char
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Convert the given character to its equivalent lowercase character\&.

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.I val uppercase 
: 
.B char -> char
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Convert the given character to its equivalent uppercase character\&.

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.I type t 
= 
.B char

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An alias for the type of characters\&.

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.I val compare 
: 
.B t -> t -> int
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The comparison function for characters, with the same specification as
.B Pervasives\&.compare
\&.  Along with the type 
.B t
, this function 
.B compare
allows the module 
.B Char
to be passed as argument to the functors
.B Set\&.Make
and 
.B Map\&.Make
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