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Jacob Wanner
Jacob Wanner

Reputation: 61

Find the first character in an array string

I am trying to find the first character of a string inside an array. I would like to do something like this:

string = ["A", "B", 1234, 54321]
string[3].chars.first # => "5"

Doing "string".chars.first # => "s" only works for a string input.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4701

Answers (2)

Gagan Gami
Gagan Gami

Reputation: 10251

Why are you convert all elements to string when you are interested to get first character of 3rd element of string array.

> string[3].to_s[0]
#=> "5"

OR

> string[3].to_s.chars.first
#=> "5"

Upvotes: 3

Elijah
Elijah

Reputation: 561

You could change all of the elements of the array to strings then do what you were originally doing.

string = ["A", "B", 1234, 54321]
string.map { |x| x.to_s }[3].chars.first
=> "5"

Upvotes: 3

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