Mnemonic aid: cmap for Character MAP
See also: [aisort ] , [append ] , [asort ] , [clearl ] , [dlist ] , [e ] , [hmap ] , [isort ] , [lcc ] , [lcopy ] , [lhsort ] , [list ] , [ljoin ] , [llen ] , [lpop ] , [lset ] , [lslice ] , [lsplit ] , [lsub ] , [ltol ] and [translate ]
This built-in creates a 256-entry list of all the possible 8-bit characters mapped directly to the list index. This allows re-mapping of any of the characters on one string to arbitrary other strings using [translate ] . Simple transposition ciphers, easily generated sequences of format characters, all are easily built using this capability: