From: Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@...>
Date: 2002-06-10T08:49:54+09:00
Subject: Re: String.left?


On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Philip Mak wrote:

> Is there a function that acts like String.left? I'd like to be able to
> get the leftmost x characters of the string. e.g.:

String#slice and it's synonym String#[ ]

~$ ruby -e 'p "1234567890"[0,4]' # from pos 0, 4 chars
"1234"
~$ ruby -e 'p "1234567890"[0..3]' # chars of given range
"1234"
~$ ruby -e 'p "1234567890"[/^.{4}/]' # with a regexp
"1234"

Pick your favorite ;)

 -- Nikodemus