From: Graham Nicholls <graham@...> (spam_filtered)
Date: 2004-08-23T23:45:42+09:00
Subject: Re: tr octal strings

David A. Black wrote:

> Hi --
> 
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Graham Nicholls wrote:
> 
>> Can string.tr (and tr!) use octal values?
>> 
>> I can do tr '\234' '\273' to print ���� symbols; how might I do this in
>> Ruby, please?
> 
> Just add a comma :-)
> 
>   "S".tr("\123","\124")
>   => "T"
> 
Doh! I had, but also, of course needed the f*ing quotes!

Thanks a lot.


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