From: Ryan <ryan@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T04:54:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23509] Re: Get last character in string?

there's always the extremely ugly:

$_="1234"
puts ~/($)/

:)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@snelling.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:42 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:23500] Get last character in string?


> Is there a more concise way to do this?
> 
>   irb(main):005:0> s = "abcd"
>   "abcd"
>   irb(main):006:0> s[s.length - 1, 1]
>   "d"
> 
> Chris Morris
> chris.morris@snelling.com
> 
>