From: Joel VanderWerf Date: 2012-01-21T08:14:12+09:00 Subject: Re: RCR String#{last, first} On 01/20/2012 02:52 PM, Pete Higgins wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Roger Pack wrote: >> string[-8..-1] || string ... > There's always the two argument form of slice: > >> "my string"[-3, 3] > # => "ing" And it still has this "feature": >> "123"[-5,5] => nil