From: Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@...>
Date: 2001-08-14T07:04:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19662] Re: String#substr

Sean Chittenden <sean_ca_1979@yahoo.com> writes:

>         Perl/C/PHP have substr.... does the ruby equiv
> exist outside of the use of regexp's?  Used with
> String#index, I'd think this method would be really
> useful.  It surprises me that I haven't seen it
> referenced/used anywhere and that's actually half of
> why I'm asking: did I miss this functionality
> someplace under a different name?  I don't think so,
> but I'm not 100% sure.  How have other people dealt w/
> this? Is there an external module that implements this
> functionality someplace?  Are there plans to include
> it in 1.7?  -sc

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Use Pleac! ;p

PLEAC, Ruby, Strings, Accessing Substrings:
http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/strings.html#AEN16
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