From: Akinori MUSHA <knu@...>
Date: 2001-05-27T18:39:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15795] Re: Check a few characters of a string: How?

At Sun, 27 May 2001 17:10:05 +0900,
Franz GEIGER wrote:
> Want to check the first or last character of a string or say any character
> of a string. Do I really have to write s[0..0] to *not* get a number but to
> get a *character*? Or even worse: Must I expand String and Array somehow for
> that?

Isn't s[pos,len] short enough?  The first character will be s[0,1] and
the last will be s[-1,1].

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