From: Ibraheem Ibz Umaru-Mohammed <iumarumo@...>
Date: 2002-10-20T04:48:51+09:00
Subject: Re: string[lastchar] -> string?

* Szabolcs Szasz <sz@szasz.hu> [2002-10-19 20:33]:
> How to elegantly get the last char of a string as a string?
> Somehow I fear I won't be cacthing girls' attention with this:
> 
>     if ('' << str[str.length-1]) = 'x'
>         str.chop
>         do_things_with(str)
>         ...
>     end
> 

ibz@ignoramus:$ irb
Reading config file... done.
ruby-1.7.3 on i686-pc-linux with irb 0.9(02/07/03)
Type 'help' for more information.
>>> str = "This is a string"
"This is a string"
>>> str[-1].chr
"g"
>>>

Is that what you are looking for?

			--ibz.
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