chr in Perl returns the character represented by that NUMBER in the character set.

examples/chr.pl

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

binmode(STDOUT, 'utf8'); # To avoide the 'Wide character in say' warning.

say chr(65);    # A
say chr(1488);  # א (Hebrew Aleph)
say chr(1634);  # ٢ (Arabic 2)
say chr(197);   # Å
say chr(195);   # Ã
say chr(215);   # ×
say chr(217);   # Ù

See also the ord function that does the opposite.

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