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instance method

String#ord

ord → integer

Returns the integer ordinal of the first character of self:

Example
'h'.ord         # => 104
'hello'.ord     # => 104
'тест'.ord      # => 1090
'こんにちは'.ord  # => 12371
See also #oct #partition #next! #prepend also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0