http://www.purl.org/tcl/home/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/scan.htm
display and numeric format for ASCII characters. display and numeric format for ASCII characters. Scan provides the usual answer:
foreach character {a A b B c} {
scan $character %c numeric
puts "ASCII character '$numeric' displays as '$character'."
}
ASCII character '97' displays as 'a'.
ASCII character '65' displays as 'A'.
ASCII character '98' displays as 'b'.
ASCII character '66' displays as 'B'.
ASCII character '99' displays as 'c'. In more recent Tcl's (8.3 or so up) you also can call scan inline:
set numeric [scan $character %c]. And the %c format is not limited to ASCII, but can handle any Unicode. ([RS])
Also see "Dump a file in hex and ASCII", as well as "u2x" in the "Bag of algorithms".
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