From: unbewusst.sein@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_B=E9v?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ue?=)
Date: 2007-10-12T08:40:03+09:00
Subject: Re: How to delete specific characters from a string?

Bazsl <hs@dbginc.com> 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.

with String#slice ???
<http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000858>

may be :
str.slice!(fixnum, fixnum) => new_str or nil

string = "this is a string"
p string.slice!( 12, 4 )
# => "ring"
p string.slice!( 5, 2 )
# => "is"


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