String manipulation

[vincent wehren]

"Nicholas Graham" <nsgraham at ece.ualberta.ca> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0504132237250.11173-100000 at feynman.ece.ualberta.ca...
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| I'm writing a program that requires some string manipulations.  Let's say
| I have a string
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| s='x'
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| Now, the ascii code for 'x' is 0x78.  I want to be able to perform
| operations on this number, and print the character corresponding to the
| results of the operation.  For example, the pseudo-code looks like:
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| -read in string s from external file (for simplicity, we'll keep s='x')
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| -determine the code for s (should be 0x78 or 120 in base 10), store it in
| variable c
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| -add a literal to c (let's say c=c+1)
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| -find out which character corresponds to the new code c=0x79
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| -store the character in a new string s2
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| At the end of this, I want s2='y'
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| Any suggestions?

Take a look at the built-in functions ord() and chr() -- Chapter 2.1 of the 
manual.

>> s = 'x'
>> c = ord(s)
>> c
120
>> c+=1
>> s2 = chr(c)
>> s2
'y'

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Vincent Wehren

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