From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-02-12T09:12:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting last character from a string

On Feb 11, 2006, at 6:07 PM, draco draco wrote:

> Hello

Hello.

> I'm new to Ruby.

Welcome then.

> I've a simple question.
> Is there a more readable way to get last character from string than  
> this
> one? :
>
> x = "text"
> last_char = x[x.length-1, x.length-1]

Strings can take a negative index, which count backwards from the end  
of the String, and an length of how many characters you want (one in  
this example).  Using that:

   "test"[-1, 1] # => "t"

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II