From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-06-13T23:26:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the last N bytes of a string:

On 6/13/07, bbiker <renard@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry to come so late in the thread.
>
> This seems to work fine for me.
>
> irb(main):001:0> str = "now is the time for all good men to come"
> => "now is the time for all good men to come"
> irb(main):002:0> str[-10..-1]
> => "en to come"
>
> 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.
>
>
>

The problem is when there are not 10 bytes in the string.

str = "abc"
p str[-10..-1] # nil

Harry


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