From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-07-20T04:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Character Code

----- Original Message -----
From: "GOTO Kentaro" <gotoken@notwork.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: Character Code


> At Sat, 20 Jul 2002 04:21:08 +0900,
> the Bare wrote:
>
> > My problem is, line[0] returns a fixnum, which doesn't compare with the
> > ';' string.  So... how do perform this comparison?
>
>   line[0] == ?;
>
> or
>
>   /^;/ =~ line
>
> `?;' is a Fixnum literal, represents ascii code of char `;'.

Or: line[0..0] will give you a string.

Hal