From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-09-13T08:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner User having issue with converting char to ASCII

On Sep 12, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Nick Bo wrote:

> my issue is I dont know how to take the character
> and convert it into ASCII.

In Ruby 1.8 you can just index into the String and Ruby will return  
the character value:

 >> "a"[0]
=> 97

Hope that helps and welcome to Ruby!

James Edward Gray II