Hi all,
I read from to the docs[1] that string[index] should do the
following: "If passed a single Fixnum, returns the code of the
character at that position."
This is working as documented with Ruby 1.8.6, but it isn't with Ruby
1.9.1p129 (on my WinXP machine). Why is this so?
Thanks for any hints
Thomas W.
Because you're looking at the documentation for ruby 1.8, not at that for ruby
1.9. The documentation for ruby 1.9, which you can find at
RDoc Documentation, states that in ruby 1.9, String#
returns the character at the given position, not its code. To obtain the code
of the character, you can use its ord method:
'a'.ord
=> 97
I hope this helps
Stefano
On Thursday 24 September 2009, ThomasW wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I read from to the docs[1] that string[index] should do the
>following: "If passed a single Fixnum, returns the code of the
>character at that position."
>
>This is working as documented with Ruby 1.8.6, but it isn't with Ruby
>1.9.1p129 (on my WinXP machine). Why is this so?
>
>Thanks for any hints
>Thomas W.
>
>[1] http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000771
>
Yes, this helps very much! Thanks for pointing me to this.
On 24 Sep., 15:47, Stefano Crocco <stefano.cro...@alice.it> wrote:
On Thursday 24 September 2009, ThomasW wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I read from to the docs[1] that string[index] should do the
> >following: "If passed a single Fixnum, returns the code of the
> >character at that position."
> >
> >This is working as documented with Ruby 1.8.6, but it isn't with Ruby
> >1.9.1p129 (on my WinXP machine). Why is this so?
> >
> >Thanks for any hints
> >Thomas W.
> >
> >[1]class String - RDoc Documentation
> >Because you're looking at the documentation for ruby 1.8, not at that for ruby
1.9. The documentation for ruby 1.9, which you can find athttp://ruby-doc.org/ruby-1.9/index.html, states that in ruby 1.9, String#
returns the character at the given position, not its code. To obtain the code
of the character, you can use its ord method:'a'.ord
=> 97I hope this helps
Stefano