From: Jack Dempsey <dempsejn@...>
Date: 2002-01-22T03:03:21+09:00
Subject: RE: Return the ASCII code ?

i've always wondered what that question mark did :-)
and i knew there had to be something simpler than 'a'[0]

thanks!
jack

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Alan Black [mailto:dblack@candle.superlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 1:00 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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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