From: Bazsl <hs@...>
Date: 2007-10-12T08:50:32+09:00
Subject: Re: How to delete specific characters from a string?

7stud -- wrote:
> 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
>   
Thanks. Very elegant.