From: Rob Rypka <rascal1182@...>
Date: 2005-11-22T04:19:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and WMI

On 11/21/05, timgerrlists <timgerrlists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, it now works, can you tell me one thing, ( I am learning)
> what does [8..-1] mean in the script "puts "\t" + mem.adsPath[8..-1]".

Indexing with a range [something..-1] will go to the end of the array/string.

irb(main):001:0> a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
=> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
irb(main):002:0> a[2..-1]
=> [2, 3, 4]
irb(main):003:0> b = "Hello, World!"
=> "Hello, World!"
irb(main):005:0> b[7..-1]
=> "World!"

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Rob