From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2005-04-14T02:59:57+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question re: variable assignment

On 4/13/05, Simon.Mullis@equinoxsolutions.com
<Simon.Mullis@equinoxsolutions.com> wrote:
> Shall we find out?

We want to be the friendly news group, so starting out questions are welcome :-)

> Why doesn't this work?
> 
> 1.upto(9) do |x|
>         puts ?#{x}
> end

The #{ } escape is for with quoted strings. You could do something
similar to what you write using and eval; however, I think you would
be better off with:

65.upto(75) { |x| puts x.chr }

Patrick