From: Szabolcs Szasz <sz@...>
Date: 2002-10-20T04:55:40+09:00
Subject: Re: string[lastchar] -> string?

Ahhh, yes! Thanks!

I was reading the Pragmatic... book and the String class
doesn't have that 'chr' method there. (And a special thanks 
for the negative indexes, which I missed completely...)

Thanks again,
Sab

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ibraheem Ibz Umaru-Mohammed" <iumarumo@btinternet.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 9:48 PM
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.
> -- 
> 
>