From: jason solomon <solomon.jas@...>
Date: 2011-05-26T02:23:38+09:00
Subject: String Element Reference

I am new to Ruby so I apologize if this seems dumb.

I am currently running ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174)
[universal-darwin10.0].

When working in an irb session I'm having trouble with String element
reference.

Example:

a = "hello"

a[0] should return "h", but instead is returning 104.

Seems like it's return the ascii value of the element, but why?


When I do a[0,3] the return is the expected "hel".




Any ideas as to why a[0] is returning a FixNumb object?

Ideas / help would be greatly appreciated.

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