From: Timothy Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2006-02-12T09:18:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting last character from a string

draco draco 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]
> 

last_char = x[-1,1]

A negative index counts from the right-hand end of the string.