Strings to Integers

Question

Say you have the string \"Hi\". How do you get a value of 8, 9 (\"H\" is the 8th letter of the alphabet, and \"i\"

Answer 1

You can also create an enumerable of character ordinals from a string using the codepoints method.

string = "Hi"

string.codepoints.map{|i| (i + 1).chr}.join
=> "Ij"