From: Sebastian Hungerecker Date: 2007-07-28T00:13:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Triming characters from the front of a String... sketchitup@gmail.com wrote: > For the life of me I can't figure out an easy way to remove the first > couple of characters from a String. I looked in my Ruby book, searched > online, and checked the documentation for the String class. I must be > missing something obvious. > > Could someone let me know if there is a method that I can use to do > this, or if there is some other trick to it. str[x..-1] gives you str without the first x characters. HTH, Sebastian -- NP: Kreator - Fatal Energy Ist so, weil ist so Bleibt so, weil war so