From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-11-09T05:13:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ASCII code thing...what gives?

Hi,

From: "Todd" <toddkennethbenson@yahoo.com>
> 
> irb(main):001:0> ?T
> => 84
> 
> irb(main):002:0> "\84"
> => "84"
> 
> irb(main):003:0> "\124"
> => "T"
> 
> irb(main):004:0> "\124\84"
> => "T84"

8 is too big for octal... :)  So I think the \8 is just 
ignored, leaving the literal "84".



Regards,

Bill