From: Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@...>
Date: 2006-02-12T14:27:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting last character from a string

x[-1].chr

[tiger-ppc.gfbm:246]bystr> irb
irb(main):001:0> s = "abc"
=> "abc"
irb(main):002:0> s[-1]
=> 99
irb(main):003:0> s[-1].chr
=> "c"

irb(main):004:0>

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> Subject: Getting last character from a string
> 
> 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]
> 
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