From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-06-02T11:19:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the last N bytes of a string:

On 6/1/07, Leonard Chin <l.g.chin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/07, Harry Kakueki <list.push@gmail.com> wrote:
> > str =~ /(.{1,10}$)/
>
> This works nicely if you do this:
> str[/(.{1,10}$)/]
>
> Though I guess it depends on what you consider "simple".
>
>

Well, I guess the parentheses are not necessary.
This looks a little less cluttered.

str[/.{1,10}$/]

Harry

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