From: Michael Edgar <adgar@...>
Date: 2011-03-03T14:54:12+09:00
Subject: Re: How can i get the first letter of this string

That won't work on Ruby 1.9, as bacon[0] will return the first actual character. This technique
works on both:

>> bacon = "chunky"
=> "chunky"
>> bacon[0,1]
=> "c"

Michael Edgar
adgar@carboni.ca
http://carboni.ca/

On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:32 AM, Thiago Massa wrote:

> irb(main):023:0> bacon="chunky"
> => "chunky"
> irb(main):024:0> bacon[0]
> => 99
> irb(main):025:0> bacon[0].chr
> => "c"
> 
> 99 is the ascii number that represents the letter 'c'.
> 
> I think that explains what you want.
> 
> -- 
> Thiago Fernandes Massa
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