String manipulation

[Terry Reedy]

"vincent wehren" <vincent at visualtrans.de> wrote in message 
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> "Nicholas Graham"
> | Any suggestions?

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

And more generally, read all of Chap.2 of the Library Reference on builtin 
functions and types.  Later chapters, most of them, are 'look up when you 
need to' type stuff, but C.2 is core material that everyone should read 
after the tutorial.

Terry J. Reedy