From: Gregor Kopp <gk@...>
Date: 2006-03-04T00:13:39+09:00
Subject: Re: string slice elegant way

p "hello there".reverse.chop.chop.reverse

lol

sorry, couldn't resist that choke...


Mage schrieb:
>       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?
> 
> (Well, I know that I can write my own [] method for String class.)
> 
>       Mage
> 
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>