From: Szabolcs Szasz <sz@...>
Date: 2002-10-20T05:01:13+09:00
Subject: Re: string[lastchar] -> string? -- ehh, OK, I shut up for today...

(OK, I'm doing great today... _Of course_ the String 
class doesn't have str() method... Er.., I was just asking 
it for a friend of mine... ;-) )

Sab

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Szabolcs Szasz" <sz@szasz.hu>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 9:55 PM
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.
> > -- 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
>