instance method

String#bytes

() -> ::Array[::Integer]

() { (::Integer byte) -> void } -> self

bytes → array_of_bytes

static VALUE
rb_str_bytes(VALUE str)
{
    VALUE ary = WANTARRAY("bytes", RSTRING_LEN(str));
    return rb_str_enumerate_bytes(str, ary);
}

Returns an array of the bytes in self:

Example

'hello'.bytes  # => [104, 101, 108, 108, 111]
'Привет'.bytes # => [208, 159, 209, 128, 208, 184, 208, 178, 208, 181, 209, 130]
'こんにちは'.bytes
# => [227, 129, 147, 227, 130, 147, 227, 129, 171, 227, 129, 161, 227, 129, 175]

Related: see Converting to Non-String.

See also #byterindex #bytesize #byteindex #byteslice also in 4.1 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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