From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-02-12T18:08:31+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]

"abc"[ -1..-1 ]

"abc".slice(-1,1)

"abc".slice(-1).chr

"abc"[ /.$/ ]

"abc".reverse[0,1]

"abc".split('').pop

class String
  def last
    self[-1,1]
  end
end

"abc".last