From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2011-03-31T03:08:05+09:00
Subject: Re: string/array slices

Patrick Tyler wrote in post #990031:
> Hello,
>
> I know that this has been covered a bit here:
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/186437 but I'm still not certain that I
> understand.
>
> s = "foo"
>
> s[3] is nil, like I would expect.
>
> s[3,0] is "", instead of nil.

That behaviour is contrary to the description in the 1.9.2 docs here:

    http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Array.html

which say:

     Returns nil if the index (or starting index) are out of range.

Because 3 is out of range, s[3,0] should return nil according to the 
docs.

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