putc(p1)
public
If obj is Numeric, write the character whose code is the
least-significant byte of obj, otherwise write the first byte of the string representation
of obj to ios. Note: This method is not safe for use with
multi-byte characters as it will truncate them.
$stdout.putc "A"
$stdout.putc 65
produces:
AA
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static VALUE
rb_io_putc(VALUE io, VALUE ch)
{
char c = NUM2CHR(ch);
rb_io_write(io, rb_str_new(&c, 1));
return ch;
}