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Dianne Skoll
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@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ information.
.SH REMINDER FILES
.PP
\fBRemind\fR uses scripts to control its operation. You can use any
text editor capable of creating plain ASCII files to create a
text editor capable of creating plain-text files to create a
\fBRemind\fR script. The commands inside a script can range from the
very simple and almost immediately understandable:
.PP
@@ -2745,7 +2745,10 @@ available only in versions of \fBRemind\fR from 03.00.04 and up.
.TP
.B asc(s_string)
Returns an \fBINT\fR that is the ASCII code of the first character
in \fIstring\fR. As a special case, \fBasc("")\fR returns 0.
in \fIstring\fR. As a special case, \fBasc("")\fR returns 0. For UTF-8
strings, this will return the UTF-8 byte with which the string
begins, which is not likely to be very useful (and may indeed be negative
on machines where \fBchar\fR is a signed type.)
.TP
.B baseyr()
Returns the "base year" that was compiled into \fBRemind\fR (normally
@@ -2754,14 +2757,10 @@ Returns the "base year" that was compiled into \fBRemind\fR (normally
.TP
.B char(i_i1 [,i_i2...])
This function can take any number of \fBINT\fR arguments. It returns
a \fBSTRING\fR consisting of the characters specified by the arguments.
Note that none of the arguments can be 0, unless there is only one
a \fBSTRING\fR consisting of the bytes specified by the arguments.
It is easy to create invalid UTF-8 sequences; \fBchar\fR does not check
for this. Note that none of the arguments can be 0, unless there is only one
argument. As a special case, \fBchar(0)\fR returns "".
.PP
.RS
Note that because \fBRemind\fR does not support escaping of characters
in strings, the only way to get a double-quote in a string is to use
\fBchar(34)\fR.
.RE
.TP
.B choose(i_index, x_arg1 [,x_arg2...])