6.1.7 Characters

Bigloo knows one more named characters #\tab, #\return, and #\null in addition to the #\space and #\newline of R5RS.

A new alternate syntax exists for characters: #a<ascii-code> where <ascii-code> is the three digit decimal ascii number of the character to be read. Thus, for instance, the character #\space can be written #a032.

procedure: char? obj

procedure: char=? char1 char2

procedure: char<? char1 char2

procedure: char>? char1 char2

procedure: char<=? char1 char2

procedure: char>=? char1 char2

library procedure: char-ci=? char1 char2

library procedure: char-ci<? char1 char2

library procedure: char-ci>? char1 char2

library procedure: char-ci<=? char1 char2

library procedure: char-ci>=? char1 char2

library procedure: char-alphabetic? char

library procedure: char-numeric? char

library procedure: char-whitespace? char

library procedure: char-upper-case? char

library procedure: char-lower-case? char

procedure: char->integer char

procedure: integer->char i

library procedure: char-upcase char

library procedure: char-downcase char

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