From: ts Date: 2001-12-17T15:17:32+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:28736] Re: String filtering, character-wise (was: Re: How do you do "character filtering" of a string using each_byte. II) >>>>> "D" == David Alan Black writes: D> Yes, that's cool. Any reason not to write it as: D> "\\x%x" % b[0] D> (Or was it just for visual clarity?) No, you are right it's better to write like this, this is just that I'm stupid :-)) Guy Decoux