From: Peter Ertl <pertl@...>
Date: 2006-03-04T14:41:26+09:00
Subject: Re: string slice elegant way

this is the closest I could think of:

a = "hello there"
a[-9,9]
> llo there 

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> Von: "Pena, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> Betreff: Re: string slice elegant way
> Datum: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 09:41:13 +0900
> 
> Mage [mailto:mage@mage.hu] 
> 
> #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?
> 
> is a[2..-1] good enough?
> 
>