From: Paolo Capriotti <p.capriotti@...>
Date: 2006-03-03T22:38:14+09:00
Subject: Re: string slice elegant way

On 3/3/06, Mage <mage@mage.hu> wrote:
>        Hello,
>
> suppose that:
>
> a = 'hello there'
> and I need 'llo there'
>
> a[2,a.size] works, but I find it ugly because the given length is larger
> than the real length of the result.
> a[2,a.size - 2] is okay, but it is not DRY.
>
> Is there any elegant way, like a[2:] in Python?

a[2..-1]

Paolo Capriotti