From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2005-11-09T05:13:50+09:00
Subject: Re: ASCII code thing...what gives?

That 124 octal equals 84 decimal may be a clue. I don't have my Ruby  
docs here or I'd look further myself.

On Nov 8, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Todd wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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"
>
> What?  Do these operators not do what I think they should?
>
> Todd
>
>

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