From: 7stud -- Date: 2007-10-12T08:29:19+09:00 Subject: Re: How to delete specific characters from a string? Bazsl wrote: > Is there really no method that allows me to delete N characters starting > at position P from a string? I have looked (carefully I hope) through > the String methods and did not see a way to do this. Thanks. Try this: str = "hello world" str[0, 6] = '' puts str -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.