From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2010-07-14T07:17:14+09:00
Subject: Re: What does this do?

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Abder-Rahman Ali
<abder.rahman.ali@gmail.com> wrote:

> For example, this from the documentation:
> a = "hello there"
> a[-3,2] #=> "er"
>
> -3 ---> Start counting from 0 to 3 from the end (Right -> Left)
> In this case I reached the letter "h" of there
>
> 2 ---> What should I do here?

Open up irb and experiment until it's clear :-)

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