From: yermej <yermej@...>
Date: 2007-12-19T00:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: String#[] behaviour

On Dec 18, 7:36 am, DNNX <6aLLIaPu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 'asd'[0...10] returns 'asd' while 'asd'[-10..-1] returns nil.
>
> As far as I understand, such behaviour completely satisfies ruby
> documentation (http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html), but
> it seems inconsistent to me.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks

From the docs for String#[] at that link:

"Returns nil if the initial offset falls outside the string..."