Chars may be written as literals using the $ sign. For example $a, $b, $c. See Literals
Chars may be created from Integers using the methods Integer: -asAscii and Integer: -asDigit.
the integer ascii value of a Char.
an integer value from 0 to 9 for chars $0 to $9, and values 10 to 35 for chars $a to $z or $A to $Z.
the upper case version of a char. Nonalphabetic chars return themselves.
a lower case version of a char. Nonalphabetic chars return themselves.
whether the char is an alphabetic character.
whether the char is an alphabetic or numeric character.
whether the char is printable.
whether the char is a punctuation character
true if the char is white space.
true if the char is a decimal digit $0 to $9.
true if the char is safe for use as in a filename. excludes the path separators / and :
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