From: Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>
Date: 2001-05-27T22:12:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15799] Re: Check a few characters of a string: How?

"Franz GEIGER" <fgeiger@datec.at> wrote:

>Want to check the first or last character of a string or say any character
>of a string. Do I really have to write s[0..0] to *not* get a number but to
>get a *character*? Or even worse: Must I expand String and Array somehow for
>that?

I think, you could write either use the "?" syntax to refer to
characters as in

 s[0] == ?A    
 s[-1] == ?Z

or use a regular expression

 s =~ /^A/ 
 s =~ /Z$/

bye
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Stefan Matthias Aust \/ Truth Until Paradox