doc/string/ord.rdoc


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Returns the integer ordinal of the first character of +self+:

  'h'.ord         # => 104
  'hello'.ord     # => 104
  'тест'.ord      # => 1090
  'こんにちは'.ord  # => 12371

Related: see {Converting to Non-String}[rdoc-ref:String@Converting+to+Non--5CString].