From: Pierre-Charles David <Pierre-Charles.David@...>
Date: 2001-07-11T23:58:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17654] Re: Ruby equivalent for ord() in Perl

Chris Uzdavinis wrote:

> Yuri Leikind <YuriLeikind@scnsoft.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Can't find the equivalent of Perl ord() in
>>Ruby. There's chr(), though.
>>
>>It's probably in front of my eyes, but ...
>>
> 
> Perl:
>   ord('c')          # ==> 99
> 
> Ruby:
>   ?c                # ==> 99

This works only for litterals, whereas 'c'[0] also works with variables 
: aString[0].

-- 
Pierre-Charles David (pcdavid <at> emn <dot> fr)
DEA Informatique, �cole des Mines de Nantes, France