From: Nuralanur@...
Date: 2006-03-03T22:36:37+09:00
Subject: Re: string slice elegant way

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You can use 
 
a="hello there"
b=a[2..-1]
p b => "llo there"
 
a[2..-2] 
 
chops off from the end.
 
Best regards,
 
Axel 

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