From: "Marcin Mielżyński" <lopexx@...>
Date: 2006-03-03T23:23:39+09:00
Subject: Re: string slice elegant way

Paolo Capriotti wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

And consider that it doesnt require Ruby to have any special syntax for 
that.

:)

lopex