From: Stephen White <steve@...>
Date: 2001-01-02T16:08:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8500] Re: Fetching a single character of a string

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Michael Granger wrote:

> Because String[ Integer ] returns a Fixnum, I am currently extracting 
> single character strings from a string by doing:
> 
>    aString.split('')[ anInteger ]
> 
> Is there a better way to get a single character of a string as a string 
> instead of a Fixnum? Or a way to convert a Fixnum to its character 
> string equivalent?

  irb(main):001:0> a = "hello"
  "hello"
  irb(main):002:0> a[3,1]
  "l"

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