From: Edgardo Hames <ehames@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T03:03:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about ? operator for ASCII

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:59:05 +0900, Barry Sperling <barry@angleinc.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>        I am a nuby and I couldn't find how to get the ASCII value of a
> character in a variable.  I looked in the Pragmatic Programmer and did this:
> 
> s = "ABC DE."
> s.scan( /./ ) do |a|
>      puts ?a
> end
> 
> but only got the ASCII value of the small letter 'a' ( 97 ).  What do I
> need to do?

I know this one!!!!! I can't believe it ;) You need to call the #chr
method for integers.

s = "ABC DE."
s.scan( /./ ) do |a|
     puts a.chr
end

Regards,
Ed
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