From: Chris Causer <chy.causer@...>
Date: 2008-10-22T07:18:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Stripping characters off a string

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org> wrote:

> your_string = "abcdef" # => "abcdef"
> your_string[-4,4] = '' # => ""
> your_string            # => "ab"


Does that really work Marc? I always thought that

 'string'[a,b]

was to take a substring beginning at a of length b. In your case, you'd just
get the last 4 characters 'cdef'.

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