Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15801] Re: Check a few characters of a string: How?"
    on 01/05/27, Chris Moline <ugly-daemon / home.com> writes:

|Why is it like that anyway?? Wouldn't it be more useful to have array[i] return
|the char instead of the number??

You might not know the definition of characters can cause very hot and
neverending debate among some kind of people (e.g. I18N folks).

							matz.