From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-06-15T23:24:29+09:00
Subject: Re: lose the first character


On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Daniel DeLorme wrote:
>> Colin Summers wrote:
>>>        r = r.reverse.chop.reverse  # remove the first character
>>>

There are a million ways to do this in Ruby.
Here's a way that could be readable...
r = 'some string'
range_end = r.length - 1
r.slice!(1..range_end)

We could def a method that takes a string and does all of this. One  
version could return a new string, the other could trim it in place.

def nibble(string)
     range_end = string.length - 1
     string.slice(1..range_end)
end

Now we can do
r = nibble(r)

You could also just extend String.