From: Brian Candler Date: 2011-07-26T05:13:34+09:00 Subject: Re: Very Very simple problem amir e. wrote in post #1012824: > I have a string like "12345678". I want to remove first character. > How can I do this? irb(main):001:0> s="12345678" => "12345678" irb(main):002:0> s[0,1] = "" => "" irb(main):003:0> s => "2345678" irb(main):004:0> s="12345678" => "12345678" irb(main):005:0> s.sub!(/./,'') => "2345678" irb(main):006:0> s => "2345678" -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.