From: Pit Capitain Date: 2006-03-31T20:17:55+09:00 Subject: Re: How does ?A return the ASCII value of A ? Dave Baldwin schrieb: > I have always used 'A'[0] to return the ASCII value of A and as > rickhg12hs wrote ?A will do the same thing. I cannot find any > reference to this in Pickaxe so can anyone explain how this works? Page 50 (first edition) or here: http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/tut_stdtypes.html#numbers Regards, Pit