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number_chars/2

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relates a number and the list of the one-character atoms forming that number.

number_chars(+Number, -List)
number_chars(-Number, +List)

If Number is a number and List is a variable then List will be unified with the list of one-character atoms whose elements correspond to the sequence of characters of the textual representation of Number.
If Number is a variable then List must be a list of one-character atoms. The concatenation of these one-character atoms must be parsable as number. Number will be unified with the resulting number.

Arguments

Number                 number
List                   list of characters (atoms with length=1)

Examples

number_chars(1234, L). Succeeds with substitution L <- ['1', '2', '3', '4']
number_chars(N, ['2', '7', '.', '1', '1']). Succeeds with substitution N <- 27.11
number_chars(14.3, ['1', X, '.', Y]). Succeeds with substitution X <- 4, Y <- 3

Standard

This predicate is part of the ISO-Prolog Standard.

See also

atom_chars/2, atom_codes/2, atom_concat/3, atom_length/2, atom_number/2, char_code/2, number_codes/2, parse_atom/2/3, sub_atom/5.

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