From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2007-08-17T05:22:42+09:00
Subject: Re: character to hex/binary/etc...

Alle gioved� 16 agosto 2007, John Joyce ha scritto:
> On Aug 16, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner wrote:
> > John Joyce wrote:
> >> Hmm... I can turn a number into a character with .chr
> >> I can convert my numbers with .to_s(2)  ((where 2 is a radix, or
> >> base))
> >> But how do I convert numbers to characters??
> >
> > I don't understand what you mean - "to_s(b)" builds a string. What do
> > you mean by "convert numbers to characters" (example).
> >
> > Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> yes it builds a string representation of a number.
> I want to take a hex or binary number though and return a character.
> 0x49 for example is "I"

I think you need Integer#chr:

0x49.chr
=> 'I'

Stefano