Functions / String Functions And Operators

chr

Returns the character with the given code.

Reading PG 18current·documented in 27 of 27 versions, 7.1 to 20

7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Signatures & examples

chr ( integer ) → text

Returns the character with the given code. In UTF8 encoding the argument is treated as a Unicode code point. In other multibyte encodings the argument must designate an ASCII character. chr(0) is disallowed because text data types cannot store that character.

chr(65) → A

Version history 5

12 → 13 changed
8.3 → 8.4 changed
8.2 → 8.3 changed
8.0 → 8.1 changed
7.2 → 7.3 changed

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