From: Cyril Jose Date: 2011-04-21T01:48:55+09:00 Subject: String problem Hello all, I am trying to read characters in a string but I want to ignore the first character and the newline at the end of the string, then store the characters in between into a new variable: str = ">Hello World\n" new_var = " Hello World" Any ideas to point me in the right direction? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.