From: "sketchitup@..." Date: 2007-07-28T00:55:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Triming characters from the front of a String... On Jul 27, 8:13 am, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote: > sketchi...@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 That is just what I needed. Thank you Sebastian and Florian