ocaml/stdlib/char.mli

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(***********************************************************************)
(* *)
(* Objective Caml *)
(* *)
(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
(* *)
(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
(* Automatique. Distributed only by permission. *)
(* *)
(***********************************************************************)
(* $Id$ *)
(* Module [Char]: character operations *)
external code : char -> int = "%identity"
(* Return the ASCII code of the argument. *)
external int_of_char : char -> int = "%identity"
(* Alias of the [code] function above. *)
val chr: int -> char
(* Return the character with the given ASCII code.
Raise [Invalid_argument "Char.chr"] if the argument is
outside the range 0--255. *)
val char_of_int : int -> char
(* Alias of the [chr] function above. *)
val escaped : char -> string
(* Return a string representing the given character,
with special characters escaped following the lexical conventions
of Objective Caml. *)
val lowercase: char -> char
val uppercase: char -> char
(* Convert the given character to its equivalent lowercase or
uppercase character, respectively. *)
(*--*)
external unsafe_chr: int -> char = "%identity"