From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-07-07T09:10:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing strings

On Jul 6, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Justin Collins wrote:

> Dark Ambient wrote:
>> If I something like word = "ruby"
>> can't I do something like (I thought it was possible)
>>
>> word[0] -> r
>> word[1] -> u
>> word[2] -> b
>> word[3] -> y
>>
>> Trying something like that now and it's giving me "weird" numbers
>>
>> Yet I'm trying it (both program and irb) and it gives me weird  
>> numbers
>>
>> irb(main):010:0> word = "ruby"
>> => "ruby"
>> irb(main):011:0> puts word[0]
>> 114
>
> Also check the documentation.
> http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M001843

Or even on your own machine:

$ ri String#[]
... ri output

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