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10.2 General Programming ¶

This section presents a number of functions that are of general programming use.

• Converting Strings to Numbers
• Assertions
• Rounding Numbers
• The Cliff Random Number Generator
• Translating Between Characters and Numbers
• Merging an Array into a String
• Managing the Time of Day
• Reading a Whole File at Once
• Quoting Strings to Pass to the Shell
• Checking Whether A Value Is Numeric
• Producing CSV Data