From: Chris Causer <chy.causer@...>
Date: 2008-10-22T07:38:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Stripping characters off a string

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Sebastian Hungerecker <
sepp2k@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Chris Causer wrote:
> > > your_string = "abcdef" # => "abcdef"
> > > your_string[-4,4] = '' # => ""
> > > your_string            # => "ab"
> >
> > Does that really work
>
> Yes, it does. If you copy and paste that code into irb, you'll see the
> exact
> output you see above (minus the # plus newlines plus the irb prompt)
>

Ah, now I see. I missed the ='' on the second line.

Thanks Marc and Sebastian, but the range method is particularly alluring :)

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