From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-01-22T02:59:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Return the ASCII code ?

Hello --

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, D De Villiers wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Newbie's question:
>
> In the Integer class you can return string containing the ASCII character
> represented by the receiver's value:
>
>   65.chr -> "A"
>
> How can you get the ASCII code from a character ? With something like:
>
>   "A".asc -> 65
>
> The String class doesn't seam to have such a method (asc ?) or anything
> similar.

Funny you should include that question mark :-)

  ruby -e 'puts ?a'
  97


David

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