From: "Jonas Roberto de Goes Filho (sysdebug)" <jonas@...>
Date: 2007-09-12T21:46:01+09:00
Subject: Re: what is this syntax: \001\002 ?

Gaspard Bucher wrote:
> A byte is coded on 8 bits, so the maximum is 255 hence the strange
> results below :
>
> irb> 8 * 8 * 7 + 8 * 7 + 7
> => 511
> irb> "\777".inspect
> => "\377"
> irb> "\777"[0]
> => 255
> irb> "\377"[0]
> => 255
>
> \777 is invalid and is truncated to \377.
>
>
>   
How I represent a number eight?

sysdebug(main):024:0> "\008"[0]
=> 0

This returned 0!

Regards,

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