From: Thomas Worm <usenet@...4r.de>
Date: 2007-07-19T21:19:59+09:00
Subject: Re: identify and extract positions from a string - how to?

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:04:13 +0200, F. Senault wrote:

> Le 19 juillet à 13:54, Thomas Worm a écrit :
> 
>> 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.)
> 

I guess you are right. I misintepreted the documentation, which says in a 
number of examples:

   a = "hello there"
   a[1,3]                 #=> "ell"
   a[1..3]                #=> "ell"

I should have taken the time to read the text instead.

Thomas