From: k <kturing@...>
Date: 2002-06-10T09:19:00+09:00
Subject: Re: String.left?

"1234567890".slice(0,4)
or
"1234567890"[0...4]
or
"1234567890"[0,4]
or
see http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_string.html

"Philip Mak" <pmak@animeglobe.com> wrote in message
news:20020609234140.GI9947@trapezoid.interserver.net...
> 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.:
>
> "1234567890".left(4) => "1234"
> "x".left(4) => "x"
>