instance method

String#ord

() -> ::Integer

ord → integer

static VALUE
rb_str_ord(VALUE s)
{
    unsigned int c;

    c = rb_enc_codepoint(RSTRING_PTR(s), RSTRING_END(s), STR_ENC_GET(s));
    return UINT2NUM(c);
}

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

Related: see Converting to Non-String.

See also #oct #partition #next! #prepend also in 4.1 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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