From: Mark Slagell <ms@...>
Date: 2001-04-23T05:07:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14031] Re: Question about strings, and arrays

Tarael200@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Hello again all,
>         Okay, I know you can refer to strings in the following sense:
> string[3] and such... Now, if you have an array of strings - array[3] refers
> to the third string - how can I access the 5th character in the third string,
> using that syntax?
> 
> example code that doesn't meet my requirements:
> array = %w(test bah hehehe hohoho)
> print array[1][1]
> 
> I thought that would print the 2nd character in the 2nd string - it doesn't.
> I understand this is also the traditional multidimensional array syntax :)
> 
> What's the deal here? What am I missing?
>                                                     -malander

Actually, it does, just not in the form you're expecting.  There's no
character type in ruby.  If you want to see it as a string of length
one, say

  print array[1][1].chr

 -- Mark