From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2010-04-18T00:35:33+09:00
Subject: what is String#ord?

Ruby 1.9 docs for String#ord say:

    Return the <code>Integer</code> ordinal of a one-character string.

What does that mean? Check for example

    "×".ord # => 215
    "×".bytes.to_a # => [195, 151]

-- fxn