From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2012-01-22T19:00:08+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR String#{last, first}

>
> however, it is harder to get the last few characters of a String
>
> string[-8..-1] || string
>

You could try something like this.

str = "123456789"
p str[/.{1,8}\z/]

p str[/\A.{1,8}/]




Harry