From: Ned Konz Date: 2001-11-17T05:46:29+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:25664] Re: Ruby equivalent for ord() in Perl On Friday 16 November 2001 11:26 am, Yuri Leikind wrote: > Hello, all, > > > Can't find the equivalent of Perl ord() in > Ruby. There's chr(), though. > > It's probably in front of my eyes, but ... In Perl you use ord() $ perl -de1 main::(-e:1): 1 DB<1> x ord("abc") 0 97 In Ruby you just index the string: $ irb irb(main):001:0> "abc"[0] 97 -- Ned Konz currently: Stanwood, WA email: ned@bike-nomad.com homepage: http://bike-nomad.com