From: Ernest Ellingson <erne@...>
Date: 2001-02-18T12:02:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11025] Re: inconsistency

At 03:27 2/18/2001 +0900, you wrote:

>a = "FooBar"
>b = a.split(//)
>b[6,2]          #=> []
>a[6,2]          #=> nil
>
>anyone knows why this last one returns nil instead of "" (empty string) ?
>
>
>
>matju

a[6] doesn't exist thus a[6,2] doesn't exist, thus Ruby says "Ain't no such 
thing"