Re: How to see the value of each char in a string?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <as345n$h78$1@reader1.panix.com>,
David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:
>>(mapcar 'identity "foo")
>>
>>    Oliver
>
>Cool -- and the last thing I would have ever thought of.
>
>Now, for elisp-lesson #2, how to add to that the 
>non-numerical representation, eg:
>
>(146   157   157   )
>(146 157 157)
>("f" "o" "o")

(mapcar 'string "foo")

>Here's the reason for my question: figuring out this (taken 
>from *shell*):
>
>
>   20 ==/dkcjunk/pstree-19.3==> ls /tfile11--myexternals-opt
>   
>
>
>What in the world caused all those ^G's?

Something was trying to ring the bell, but I'm not sure what.

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