From: Stefan Scholl <stesch@...>
Date: 2003-11-27T00:17:11+09:00
Subject: Re: turning a string into array of ASCII bytes

On 2003-11-26 14:39:45, David Garamond wrote:

> What is the shortest, most straightforward way (without temporary 
> variables, etc)?

Do you really need an array? You can access the ASCII codes of every
character in a string with [].

irb(main):001:0> a='David'
=> "David"
irb(main):002:0> a[0]
=> 68
irb(main):003:0> a[1]
=> 97