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<function name="char" parent="string" type="libraryfunc">⤶ <description>Takes the given numerical bytes and converts them to a string.</description>⤶ <realm>Shared and Menu</realm>⤶ <args>⤶ <arg name="bytes" type="vararg">The bytes to create the string from.</arg>⤶ </args>⤶ <rets>⤶ <ret name="" type="string">String built from given bytes</ret>⤶ </rets>⤶ </function>⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Prints a string consisting of the bytes 72, 101, 108, 108, 111</description>⤶ <code>print( string.char( 72, 101, 108, 108, 111 ) )</code>⤶ <outputfixedwidth>Fixed width</outputfixedwidth>⤶ <output>Hello</output>⤶ ⤶ </example>⤶ ⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Helper function to create a random string.</description>⤶ <code>⤶ function string.Random( length )⤶ ⤶ local length = tonumber( length )⤶ ⤶ if length &amp;lt; 1 then return end⤶ ⤶ local result = "" -- The empty string we start with⤶ ⤶ for i = 1, length do⤶ ⤶ result = result .. string.char( math.random(32, 126) )⤶ ⤶ end⤶ ⤶ return result⤶ ⤶ end⤶ ⤶ print( string.Random( 10 ) )⤶ </code>⤶ <outputfixedwidth>Fixed width</outputfixedwidth>⤶ <output>oEjkv2?h:T</output>⤶ ⤶ </example>

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