From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-07-31T06:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Howto Delete 3 Leftmost Characters


Skeets wrote:
> i'm sure this is easy, but i've gone through Pickaxe's string methods,
> searched the web and searched the groups, and i can't figure out how to
> do this in Ruby.
>
> i grep a file and it returns the following string:
>
> #ip 127.0.0.1
>
> i now want to get rid of "#ip" so i can then strip the remaining string
> to get rid of spaces.
>
> however, i can't find out how to delete the 3 leftmost characters - in
> this case "#ip".
>
> thanks for any tips to get this done - i would think it is a matter of
> just knowing the correct method.

irb(main):001:0> s="#ip 127.0.0.1"
=> "#ip 127.0.0.1"
irb(main):002:0> s.slice!(0,3)
=> "#ip"
irb(main):003:0> s
=> " 127.0.0.1"