From: Tim Rowe Date: 2003-08-21T01:49:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie Q: Getting character codes On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:19:49 GMT, "Mark J. Reed" wrote: >Ah, I misunderstood. Apologies. No problem: my lack of clarity. > >I imagine that unpack will continue to work: > > irb(main):042:0> foo = 'f' > => "f" > irb(main):043:0> foo.unpack('C')[0] > => 102 That makes sense; thanks.