From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2000-12-13T04:44:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7103] Re: Rubyize this method

Dave Thomas wrote:
> ...
> 
> Not quite the same, though. Chris' method
> 
>     lopOff("fred", "e") would return "d"
>     "fred".lopOff("e")  would return "frd"
> 
> If the latter is acceptable, then
> 
>     s[substr] = ""
> 
> is another idiom.
> 
> Dave


Good point, and I would add

s[/^#{substr}/] = ""

as another option corresponding to my previous post,
(and Aleksi's ;-) which requires the specified substring 
to exist at the front.


Guy N. Hurst

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