From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2007-06-15T04:55:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Characters and strings oddness

On Jun 14, 12:27 pm, Zachary Holt <z...@wzph.com> wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Stefan Kruger wrote:
> > irb(main):002:0> string[0] == 't'
>
> string[0].chr == 't'
> or
> string[0] == ?t

or string[0..0] == 't'

It's a common gotcha that indexing a string by a single integer
returns the (integer) CODE of the character/byte at that location, not
the one-character string containing that byte.