From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-11-28T04:21:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings and substrings

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:17:15AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> str = "hello world"
> str[0]  # -> 104
> 
> What does 'str[0]' do?  Why does it print 104 instead of "h"?
> 
> I realize that these work:
> 
> str[0..0] # -> "h"
> str[0,1]  # -> "h"
> 
> Could someone explain to me what these do?  And why I get:

http://www.glue.umd.edu/~billtj/ruby.html#characters
 
> str[0,0] # -> ""

substring starting at index 0, length 0 => empty string

 
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