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ord
Combined from primary sources listed below.

In Str§

See primary documentation in context for routine ord. 

multi        ord(Str:D  --> Int:D)
multi method ord(Str:D: --> Int:D)

Returns the codepoint number of the base characters of the first grapheme in the string.

Example:

ord("A"); # 65
"«".ord;  # 171

In Cool§

See primary documentation in context for routine ord. 

sub ord(Str(Cool))
method ord()

Coerces the invocant (or in sub form, its argument) to Str, and returns the Unicode code point number of the first code point.

say 'a'.ord;            # OUTPUT: «97␤»

The inverse operation is chr.

Mnemonic: returns an ordinal number