Or you could use 'c'[0], useful when you have a string: x = 'c' x[0] # ==> 99 Stephen. Yuri Leikind <YuriLeikind / scnsoft.com> writes: > Can't find the equivalent of Perl ord() in > Ruby. There's chr(), though. > > It's probably in front of my eyes, but ... Perl: ord('c') # ==> 99 Ruby: ?c # ==> 99 -- Chris