From: Marc Hoeppner <marc.hoeppner@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T20:16:12+09:00
Subject: Re: identify and extract positions from a string - how to?

Thanks a lot, dont know how I missed that in the string chapter.

Anyhow, another thing came up:

while string[1..10] is pretty much what I was looking for - is there any 
way that I can substitute the numbers (or the whole content of the 
square brackets for that matter) with variables?

As it is now I have a file that contains coordinates and a second file 
that contains the string that I want to extract from.

So ideally the script would read each line of the coordinate file

45..78
90..120
etc

and uses it in the extraction method

file.readlines each do |l|
  puts string[l]
end

Doesnt work tho -any suggestions on how to pipe each line of the 
coordinate file to the string method? I know I know, probably simple, 
but I am still learning ;)

Cheers,

Marc

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