From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2005-03-20T05:55:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Iterating through a string and removing leading characters

On Friday 18 March 2005 04:24 pm, Florian Gross wrote:
> str.slice!(0)

Thanks!  (Can't believe I didn't recognize that approach.)

> I think this is actually fairly efficient, but I suppose there's a
> memmove involved at the C level.
>
> Perhaps you could set the characters you don't need to '\0' and remove
> all of them after the iteration has ended with a Regexp?

Sounds like a possibility, although my first set of tests show the REs to be 
much faster.

regards,
Randy Kramer