From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-10-31T21:45:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Range of hex values?

On 30.10.2010 11:33, Ammar Ali wrote:
> 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}

The ".to_a" is superfluous here.  Here are other options

127.times.map &:chr
(0..127).map &:chr

Kind regards

	robert

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