In message "[ruby-talk:7449] question: 'A'..'k'" on 00/12/17, Mathieu Bouchard <matju / cam.org> writes: >k=0; ("A".."k").each{|x|k+=1}; k > > >I expected 11, I got 26. Why is that? Try: k=0; ("A".."k").each{|x|p x; k+=1}