Hello, I haven’t been able to find documentation on converting characters/a string’s characters to ascii. I found that the ? mark works in the iex terminal, but not in code. I tried this with no luck: def words_to_marks(s) do s |> String.graphemes() |> Enum.map(fn x -> ?x end) end``…

Hello and welcome, There is a simple solution… to_charlist() ?a works, but ?“a” will not, so ?x will not work. iex> "Hello" |> to_charlist() |> IO.inspect(charlists: :as_lists) [72, 101, 108, 108, 111] iex> "你好" |> to_charlist() |> IO.inspect(charlists: :as_lists) [20320, 22909] charlist are li…

Erlang :binary.first() will convert to ascii def to_ascii(string) when is_binary(string) do :binary.first(string) end

? does not give you anything ASCII related, it is a different form to write an integer, and it works in iex and in code, but it does not work with variables. The compiler sees ?x and sees it as the integer representing the unicode code point of Latin Small Letter X, which is 120. Coincidentally this…

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skylord August 13, 2020, 1:55am 4

Thank you!