llChar

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Summary

Function: string llChar( integer val );
0.0 Forced Delay
10.0 Energy

Construct a single character string from the supplied Unicode value.
Returns a string

• integer val Unicode value for character.

This function returns a single character string generated from the character at the indicated UTF-32 codepoint. Returns "?" (Unicode 0x0F) if val is negative.
Returns the Unicode replacement character "�" (0xFFFD) for characters that do not have a proper single-character representation in UTF-16 (multi-character surrogates or otherwise invalid).

Examples

default
{
    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        string test_string = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog";
        list test_list = [];
        string test_string2 = "";
        
        integer index;
        integer ord;
        for (index = 0; index < llStringLength(test_string); ++index)
        {
            ord = llOrd(test_string, index);
            test_list = test_list + [ ord ];
        }
        
        string char;
        for (index = 0; index < llGetListLength(test_list); ++index)
        {
            ord = llList2Integer(test_list, index);
            char = llChar(ord);
            test_string2 = test_string2 + char;
        }
        
        llSay(0, "\"" + test_string + "\" -> [" + 
            llDumpList2String(test_list, ", ") + "] -> \"" + test_string2 + "\"");
    }
}

See Also

Functions

• llOrd Convert a character into an ordinal
• llHash Calculate a 32bit hash for a string

Articles

•  "Wikipedia logo"UTF-32

Deep Notes

Signature

function string llChar( integer val );