From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-08-17T05:28:24+09:00
Subject: Re: character to hex/binary/etc...


On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Stefano Crocco wrote:

> 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
>
Oops, no, that's not what I need. I can do that.
I need to take "I" or "J" or whatever character and convert to hex!  
or binary
(sorry, I'm a little sleepy now)