Module `Astring.Char`

Characters (bytes in fact).

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Bytes

type t = char: The type for bytes.

val of_byte : int -> char

of_byte b is a byte from b.

raises Invalid_argument: if b is not in the range [0x00;0xFF].

val of_int : int -> char option: of_int b is a byte from b. None is returned if b is not in the range [0x00;0xFF].

val to_int : char -> int: to_int b is the byte b as an integer.

val hash : char -> int: hash is Hashtbl.hash.

Predicates

val equal : char -> char -> bool: equal b b' is b = b'.

val compare : char -> char -> int: compare b b' is Pervasives.compare b b'.

Bytes as US-ASCII characters

module Ascii : sig ... end: US-ASCII character support

Pretty printing

val pp : Stdlib.Format.formatter -> char -> unit: pp ppf c prints c on ppf.

val dump : Stdlib.Format.formatter -> char -> unit: dump ppf c prints c as a syntactically valid OCaml char on ppf using Ascii.escape_char