From: Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>
Date: 2005-04-12T03:32:07+09:00
Subject: Re: pass a byte array to a web service

> that is, a single character is a byte, yet a range is a substring.
> 
> I haven't quite grokked the ruby rules around this yet.

Whys www.poignantguide.net/ruby/print.html says

str = "A string is a long shelf of letters and spaces." 
puts str[0]       # prints 'A'

but ruby 1.8.2

irb(main):001:0> str = "A string is a long shelf of letters and spaces."
=> "A string is a long shelf of letters and spaces."
irb(main):002:0> puts str[0]
65

So I guess the behaviour changed between 1.6 and 1.8? Or why made a typo?



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