From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-11-27T05:27:12+09:00
Subject: Re: turning a string into array of ASCII bytes

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, T. Onoma wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 02:37:02 +0900
> From: T. Onoma <transami@runbox.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Subject: Re: turning a string into array of ASCII bytes
> 
> On Wednesday 26 November 2003 06:07 pm, Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
> > > (i.e. so that s[0] and s[0,1] return the same thing,  as is already true
> > > of arrays).
> >
> > But you can be sure that then there will be another method (possibly
> > String#at(index)) that is equivalent to String#[index] of today.
> 
> or
> 
>   str[index].asc as the opposite of Integer#chr, perhaps?
> 
> i thought we already had this but i can't seem to find it so guess we don't.
> 
> -t0

you mean this?

~ > irb
irb(main):001:0> 42.chr
=> "*"

irb(main):002:0> 42.chr[0]
=> 42

irb(main):003:0> "*"[0]
=> 42

irb(main):004:0> "*"[0].chr
=> "*"



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