From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2007-10-12T08:32:24+09:00
Subject: Re: How to delete specific characters from a string?


On 11-Oct-07, at 7:15 PM, 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.

bash-3.2$ irb
irb(main):001:0> s = 'abcdefghi'
=> "abcdefghi"
irb(main):002:0> s[3,4] = ''
=> ""
irb(main):003:0> s
=> "abchi"

might be one way to do it.

Hope this helps,

Mike

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