<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6 [smp:2] [async-threads:0]</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Eshell V5.6 (abort with ^G)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">1> [A,B|T] = "abcdefg".</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">"abcdefg"</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2> A.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">97</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">3> B.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">98</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">4> T.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">"cdefg"</span><br>
<br>I know _why_ A. and B. print out as ints and why T. prints out as a string of characters, how do I get A and B to print out as characters?<br>