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

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Chris