From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2007-06-15T23:38:08+09:00
Subject: Re: lose the first character

Hi,

Am Freitag, 15. Jun 2007, 23:24:29 +0900 schrieb John Joyce:
> 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
> >>>
> 
> 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

Obey at least some conventions.

  class String
    def shift
      slice! 0, 1 if any?
    end
    alias lchop shift
  end

Bertram


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