From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2001-03-06T11:12:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12072] Re: Opposite of Integer.chr

jjthrash@pobox.com wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Forgive my ignorance, but I can't seem to find a method that
> returns the ASCII value of a given character.  Can anyone help me
> out?
>

Use the '?' operator, or subscript it out:

irb(main):001:0> 65.chr
"A"
irb(main):002:0> ?A
65
irb(main):003:0>"A"[0]
65



Guy N. Hurst


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