5.2.10  String defined by the ASCII codes of its characters

The char command translates ASCII codes to strings.

• char takes c, an integer representing an ASCII code or a list of ASCII codes.
• char(c) returns the string whose character has ASCII code c or whose characters have ASCII codes the elements of the list c.

Example

Note that there are 256 ASCII codes, 0 through 255. If asc is given an integer c not in that range, it will use the integer in that range which equals c modulo 256.

because 353−256=97.