From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-07-31T14:18:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Howto Delete 3 Leftmost Characters

On 7/31/06, Esteban Manchado Vel�zquez <zoso@foton.es> wrote:
>
> But you're probably better off using regular expressions instead of fixed
> indices:
>
>     "#ip 127.0.0.1".sub(/^#ip\s+/, '') # => "127.0.0.1"

A prettier looking form, in this case, is

s = "#ip 127.0.0.1"
s[/^#ip /] = ''

martin