From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2007-06-13T23:20:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the last N bytes of a string:


On 13-Jun-07, at 10:15 AM, bbiker wrote:

> irb(main):001:0> str = "now is the"
> => "now is the"
> irb(main):002:0> str[-10..-1]
> => "now is the"
>
> So I really see no need for a special method to obtain the last x
> bytes of a string.

str[-100..-1]
=> nil

Cheers,
Bob

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