Designates a single character as part of a chunk expression.
# Metadata
Platforms: desktop, server, mobile OS: mac, windows, linux, ios, android Introduced: 1.0 Security:
# Syntax
character
# Examples
get char 1 of field "Answers"
put char 12 to 14 of it into oldAnswer
# Description
Use the character keyword to refer to a specific character or characters in a container.
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.
The hierarchy of the new and altered chunk types is as follows:
byte w of codeunit x of codepoint y of char z of word ...
>*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 byte keyword.
# Tags
# See
- **keyword:** characters, codepoint, codeunits, character, line, word, codepoints, bytes, byte, codeunit - **glossary:** chunk expression - **property:** imageSource