From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T09:17:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing strings

Ahh...so those numbers are the character codes ?

Stuart

On 7/6/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> 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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