From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-10-31T00:12:01+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you get the tail end of a string?

Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Freitag, 30. Okt 2009, 13:25:05 +0900 schrieb Michael W. Ryder:
>>> You mean like string[-1]?
>>
>> I'm sorry, I missed the part about the index number of characters.  Try 
>> string[-index, index].
> 
> That's really ugly. You shouldn't have to mention `index' twice.

And you don't.  string[-index..-1] does the trick.

> I would even support a language extension to solve this problem.

No need.

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