From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-05-02T01:39:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of Strings in Range


"Michael Neumann" <mneumann@ntecs.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20040501112120.GC794@miya.intranet.ntecs.de...
> Hi,
>
>   r1 = ("\000" .. "\377")   # all characters?
>
>   r1.to_a
>   # => ..... "6", "7", "8", "9"]
>
>   r1.to_a.size
>   # => 58
>
> Hm, I guess this is because of "9".succ gives "10", and "10" has a size
> of two.
>
> But why does "9".succ results in "10"?

IMHO this is a perlism so you can count with strings

irb(main):010:0> ("0".."20").to_a
=> ["0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12",
"13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20"]

    robert