From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T21:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: identify and extract positions from a string - how to?

Le 19 juillet � 13:54, Thomas Worm a �crit :

> Those ..-things are called ranges, which, what wonder, are a class in 
> ruby. Have a look at http://corelib.rubyonrails.org/ for the class Range.
> 
> another way to express str[45..78] is str[45,78] 

Nope : 

>> str[45..78].length
=> 34
>> str[45,78].length
=> 78

(IOW start_position..end_position versus start_position,length.)

Fred
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