From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2002-03-23T08:08:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Sub-String

"Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@snelling.com> wrote in message
news:99DD35F8BFC4D511A3C500508BEE03A232473A@mail01...
> > http://www.rubycentral.com/book/builtins.html
>
> Guess you just overlooked it there :)
>
> http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_string.html#String.slice

No, actually...I looked at slice...but I didn't understand that the range
parameter could indicate the end of the string.  I should have put
two-and-two together and realized that since -1 means the last character in
the string, and using '..' in the range means to include the last character
in the string, that [11..-1] means start at 11 and include everything up to
and including the last character in the string, but I've never used indexing
with this sort of flexibility so it hasn't all entirely jelled for me yet.

    Sean