[lp_string_chr]

Description

Returns a character given an integer octet or an array of integer octets.

Requires [lp_math_decToOctet], [lp_math_hexToDec]

Sample Usage

For UTF-8:

[lp_string_chr: (lp_math_hextodec: 'C2A9')]

[lp_string_chr: 84] returns 'T'

[lp_string_chr: (array: 195, 164)] returns ä (a with umlaut)

[lp_string_chr: 50084] returns ä (a with umlaut)

[lp_string_chr: (array: 226,130,172)] returns euro symbol

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[

define_tag:'lp_string_chr',
	-description='Returns a character given an integer octet or an array of integer octets.',
	-priority='replace',
	-required='bytes', -copy,
	-optional='character_set',
	-optional='hex';

// http://www.unicode.org/charts/
// http://www.426.ch/ascii.html

	if: (local_defined:'hex');
		#bytes = (array: (lp_math_hexToDec:(string: #bytes)));
	/if;

	if: #bytes->type != 'array';	
		#bytes = (array: (integer: #bytes));
	/if;
	
	if: !(local_defined:'character_set');
		local:'character_set' = $__encoding__;
	/if;

	local:'return' = bytes;
	iterate: (lp_math_decToOctet: #bytes), local:'octet';
		#return->(import8bits: #octet);
	/iterate;
	
	return: #return->(exportstring: #character_set);

/define_tag;

]

Related Tags

• lp_string_asc

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