<doc>
	<legacy_id>2321</legacy_id>
	<name>character</name>
	<type>keyword</type>

	<syntax>
	</syntax>

	<synonyms>
		<synonym>char</synonym>
	</synonyms>

	<summary>Designates a single <keyword tag="character">character</keyword> as part of a <glossary tag="chunk expression">chunk expression</glossary>.</summary>

	<examples>
<example>get char 1 of field "Answers"</example>
<example>put char 12 to 14 of it into oldAnswer</example>
	</examples>

	<history>
		<introduced version="1.0">Added.</introduced>
		<deprecated version=""></deprecated>
		<removed version=""></removed>
		<changed version="7.0">Updated for Unicode compatibility</changed>
		<experimental version=""></experimental>
		<nonexperimental version=""></nonexperimental>
	</history>

	<objects>
	</objects>

	<platforms>
		<mac/>
		<windows/>
		<linux/>
		<ios/>
		<android/>
	</platforms>

	<classes>
		<desktop/>
		<server/>
		<web/>
		<mobile/>
	</classes>

	<security>
	</security>


	<classification>
		<category>Text and Data Processing</category>
	</classification>

	<references>
		<property tag="imageSource">imageSource Property</property>
		<keyword tag="word">word Keyword</keyword>
		<keyword tag="characters">characters Keyword</keyword>
		<keyword tag="line">line Keyword</keyword>
		<keyword tag="byte">byte Keyword</keyword>
		<keyword tag="bytes">bytes Keyword</keyword>
		<keyword tag="codepoint">codepoint Keyword</keyword>
		<keyword tag="codepoints">codepoints Keyword</keyword>
		<keyword tag="codeunit">codeunit Keyword</keyword>
		<keyword tag="codeunits">codeunits Keyword</keyword>
	</references>

	<description>
	<overview>Use the <b>character</b> keyword to refer to a specific character or characters in a container.</overview>

		<parameters>
		</parameters>

	<value></value>
	<comments>A character refers to what would naturally be thought of as a single graphical character, even if it is composed of multiple sub-units, as in some accented text or Korean ideographs. <p></p><p>The hierarchy of the new and altered chunk types is as follows:</p><p></p><p>byte w of codeunit x of codepoint y of char z of word ...</p><p></p><p><note> In versions prior to 7.0 the byte chunk was identical in functionality to the character chunk. In 7.0 and later a character is not an 8-bit unit and it is therefore not appropriate to use this type of chunk expression on binary data, to refer to 8-bit units in binary data use the <keyword tag="byte">byte</keyword> keyword.</note></comments>
	</description>
</doc>