From: Nuralanur@... Date: 2006-07-31T06:40:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Howto Delete 3 Leftmost Characters -------------------------------1154295630 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit string="#ip 127.0.0.1" new_string=string[3..-1] =>" 127.0.0.1" (Indexing in Ruby starts at 0 ...) Best regards, Axel -------------------------------1154295630--