From: Michael Guterl <mguterl@...>
Date: 2006-08-11T03:52:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Method arguments.

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On 8/10/06, Sard Aukary <sardaukary@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Jim Weirich wrote:
> > In your particular case, it can be restated as:
> >
> >    puts "this is a test"[4..-1]
> >
> > Where the -1 refers to the end of the string.
> >
> > I'm not sure how your example relates to function arguments ... but is
> > this helpfull?
> >
> > -- Jim Weirich
>
> Ah yes, -1 is the most obvious way of to get the end reference.
>
> I was just wondering if there was some sort of reflective way of getting
> a reference to the  "this is a test" string from with the [] method.


Are you looking for something like this?

class String
  def your_method
    self[4..self.length]
  end
end

"this is a test".your_method
=> " is a test"

Thanks.
>
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>
Michael Guterl

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