Getting certain characters from a string

Ruby
1

I have a string that I need to get certain characters at a given index.
However, doing something like str[0] gives the ascii number, not the
actual
character. How do I get it to give me the character?

2

Reese C. wrote in post #1030886:

I have a string that I need to get certain characters at a given index.
However, doing something like str[0] gives the ascii number, not the
actual
character. How do I get it to give me the character?

str[0,1]

This is compatible with both ruby 1.8 and ruby 1.9.

3

I believe you’re looking for the chr method

As in

string[0].chr

4

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Reese.