Generate array of all letters and digits

Question

Using ruby, is it possible to make an array of each letter in the alphabet and 0-9 easily?

Answer 1

for letters or numbers you can form ranges and iterate over them. try this to get a general idea:

("a".."z").each { |letter| p letter }

to get an array out of it, just try the following:

("a".."z").to_a