From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2007-11-26T15:07:40+09:00
Subject: Re: specify start postion of Regexp matching

Jordan Callicoat wrote:
> You have to create a sub-string with
> the 1.8 version, but according to Robert Klemme (above) it's just
> creating a pointer into the original string if you're not changing the
> substring or original string. 

I'm having a hard time confirming that:

str = "hello"
sub_str = str[1, 2]

puts str.object_id
-->76750

puts sub_str.object_id
-->76740

puts sub_str.class
-->String
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