On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:00:11 +0900
"Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst / hurstlinks.com> wrote:

> 1)
> Is there some alternative to the following:
> 
> def ord
>   ?(self[0].to_s)
> end
> 
> obviously this doesn't work.  Am I missing some other method?
> 

Is this what you want?

irb(main):001:0> class String
irb(main):002:1>   def ord
irb(main):003:2>     self[0]
irb(main):004:2>   end
irb(main):005:1> end
nil
irb(main):006:0> s = "abc"
"abc"
irb(main):007:0> s.ord
97

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