characters

Returns the list of all characters in a string.

Syntax

• characters(s)

  • s is a string

Description

If s is a string, then characters(s) is the (ordered) list of all characters of s.

Exmples

Alice ≔ ExampleData("Alice in Wonderland") \ 50

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

Lewis Carroll
…

SortBy(frequencies(filter(characters(UpperCase(Alice)), ChrIsLetter)), (x ↦ −x[2]))

(E, 13576)
(T, 10689)
(A, 8791)
(O, 8145)
(I, 7515)
(H, 7375)
(N, 7016)
(S, 6501)
(R, 5438)
(D, 4931)
(L, 4716)
(U, 3468)
(W, 2676)
(G, 2531)
(C, 2399)
(Y, 2262)
(M, 2107)
(F, 2001)
(P, 1524)
(B, 1475)
(K, 1158)
(V, 846)
(Q, 209)
(X, 148)
(J, 146)
(Z, 78)

See also

• words