From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-01-02T17:55:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8506] Re: Fetching a single character of a string

Michael Granger <Ged@FaerieMUD.org> writes:

> 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?

  aString[n, 1]

returns a string, as does

  aString[n].chr


I personally prefer the first.


Regards


Dave