From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2001-01-02T16:16:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8503] Re: Fetching a single character of a string

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Hi Michael

On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 19:55, I think 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?

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but if you try and put a 
range between the square brackets you will receive whatever is between the 
range as a String. For example:

"String"[0..0]  --> the String "S"
"String"[0..1]  --> the String "St"

I hope this helps you out.

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Signed,
Holden Glova
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