From: Jet Koten <jetkoten@...>
Date: 2010-02-27T06:59:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex for "not matching" an unneeded prefix substring?

Alexander Jesner wrote:
> On 02/26/2010 22:20, Jet Koten wrote:
>> end of my code:
>>
>> "Like New"
>> "Very Good"
>> "Good"
>> "Acceptable"
>>   
> 
> If you just want to ged rid of the word "Used", you could use something
> like this:
> 
>    text = "Used - Like New"
>    text[7, text.length]
> => "Like New"
> 
> Regards

It works! :) I had to change 7 to 8 to get rid of an extra space, but 
that did it in a far less complex way than using regex! Thanks.
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