From: Tarael200@...
Date: 2001-04-23T05:49:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14032] Re: Question about strings, and arrays

In a message dated 4/22/2001 4:08:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ms@iastate.edu 
writes:

<< 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 >>

Thank you for your speedy reply :-)
                                                -malander