Perl | chr() Function

The chr() function in Perl returns a string representing a character whose Unicode code point is an integer.

Syntax: chr(Num)
Parameters:
Num : It is an unicode integer value whose corresponding character is returned .
Returns: a string representing a character whose Unicode code point is an integer.

Example 1:

Perl

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Taking some unicode integer value as the parameter
# of the chr() function and returning the corresponding
# characters as output
print chr(71), chr(101), chr(101), chr(107), chr(115);
print "\n";
print chr(102), chr(111), chr(114);
print "\n";
print chr(71), chr(101), chr(101), chr(107), chr(115);

Output:

Geeks
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Geeks

Example 2:

Perl

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Initialising an array of some unicode integer values
# and retrieving each value and printing their
# corresponding characters
my @Array = (71, 101, 101, 107, 115);
foreach my $element (@Array) {
    print chr($element);
}

Output :

Geeks

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