From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-05-27T05:03:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Why "ABCDE"[0] returns an integer instead of 'A' ?

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Phil <phil_meier@gmx.net> wrote:
> On May 26, 1:21 pm, Robert Dober <robert.do...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> > Why 65? it's the Ascii value of A:
>> >  puts "\x65"
>> >  => "e"
>>
>> because of
>>    "e"[0] == ?e  &&  ?e == 0x65,
>> what did you want to do with \x?
>
> \x is for hexadezimal. 65 is indeed the (decimal) Ascii value of 'A'.
> hex = dez
> 0x65 = 101
> 0x41 = 65
>
Thanks for correcting my error Philip
I should have written

"A"[0] etc.etc.

I got confused by the => e

R.