From: Arlen Christian Mart Cuss Date: 2007-10-03T00:19:37+09:00 Subject: Re: Discarding putc But Not puts Hi, On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 20:02 +0900, Andrew Stewart wrote: > >> putc 'b' > => "b" # I was hoping for no output Since I think other people satisfactorily answered the rest, note here that "b" is a return value, and that a normal putc would look like this on a console: irb(main):001:0> putc 'b' b=> "b" irb(main):002:0> So it was successful here. :) Arlen