From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2010-10-30T23:33:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Range of hex values?

you are relying on String#succ! there.  read the docs to understand
why it is not what you want.

On Oct 30, 3:33 am, Ammar Ali <ammarabu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In 1.8.[67] the following range does not produce what I expected:
>
>   ("\x00".."\x7F").to_a
>
> It only produces the characters between \x00 and \x39, while in
> 1.9.[12] it produces the full expected range.
> I'm curious if this would be considered a bug, intentional, or I'm
> missing something?
>
> A workaround that does the right thing in all versions:
>
>   (0..127).to_a.map {|c| c.chr}
>
> Regards,
> Ammar