From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-02-12T09:16:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting last character from a string

On 2/11/06, draco draco <thedraco@go2.pl> wrote:
> Hello
> I'm new to Ruby. 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]
>

You can do:
last_char = x[-1,1]
or # possibly too arcane
last_char = x.split('').last

The second has the advantage of being (I think) multibyte-character safe.