ord

  • We can find the ASCII value of a character in Ruby using the String#[] method. We use this method in Ruby to specify the index of the character we need.

    PHP

    $result = ord("t");
var_export($result);
// => 116

    Ruby

    p "t"[0]
# => 116

    see also

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