From: Kenichi Kamiya Date: 2012-02-27T01:00:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Perl like array/string slicing in Ruby? Ruby has Array#values_at . http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Array.html#method-i-values_at card_num, count = record.split(':').values_at(1, 5) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.