Integer value of a character in ruby?

Question

I am looking to turn the character 'a' into 97 in ruby 1.9.2

Ruby 1.8.7

irb(main):001:0> ?a
=> 97

Ruby 1.9.2

irb(main):001:0> ?a
=> "a"

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4111283/integer-value-of-a-character-in-ruby

Answer 1

You probably want String#ord:

% irb
ruby-1.9.2-head > 'a'.ord
 => 97