From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-07-21T04:16:51+09:00
Subject: Re: getting char from string as fixnum in 1.8 and 1.9

David A. Black wrote:
>   def third_char_as_fixnum(s)
>     s[2,1].unpack("C*")[0]
>   end

Hm, worth a try, and also:

   s[2,1].unpack("C").first

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