From: m4dc4p <jgbailey@...>
Date: 2006-01-06T17:03:00+09:00
Subject: How to access individual characters in a string (as strings)?

I'm embarrassed to ask such a seeminly simple question, but I can't
figure out how to "easily" get the individual characters/bytes out of a
string as strings. For example:

"abc"[0]
# => 97
"abc"[0..0]
# => "a"

The first form gives me the character as a Fixnum, but I want a string.
The second form gives me what I want but it seems ugly.  Is there a
better way to get at a given character, *as a string* ?

Thanks for any and all help!

Justin