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taking the first letter from a string


"test"[0].chr

 








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4.Use string as array
5.Change a string with offset
6.Accessing Strings
7.If you add the chr method from the Integer class, you'll get the actual character:
8.use an offset and length (two Fixnums) to tell [] the index location where you want to start, and then how many characters you want to retrieve
9.Enter a range to grab a range of characters.
10.use regular expressions
11.Adding another argument, a Fixnum, returns that portion of the matched data, starting at 0 in this instance
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