From: Douglas Livingstone Date: 2005-04-12T04:17:17+09:00 Subject: Re: pass a byte array to a web service On Apr 11, 2005 7:32 PM, Lyndon Samson wrote: > So I guess the behaviour changed between 1.6 and 1.8? Or why made a typo? Here's documentation for 1.6: http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ref_c_string.html#String._ob_cb a = "hello there" a[1] � 101 Douglas