From: "Schüle Daniel" <uval@...>
Date: 2006-07-31T08:00:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Howto Delete 3 Leftmost Characters

Skeets schrieb:
> 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):022:0> "abcdeg".sub(/.../, "")
=> "deg"
irb(main):023:0> "abcdeg"[3..-1]
=> "deg"
irb(main):024:0>

hth, Daniel