From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-11-17T10:40:17+09:00
Subject: Re: substring: to the end of the string



"KONTRA Gergely" <kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20031114154849.GA12384@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu...
> Hi!
>
> Is there any easiest way to get the substring starting from the 3rd
> character?
>
> my solution:
> str[3..-1] which seems quite odd :-/
>
> What if, intuitive, we can write
> str[3..]?
>
> Any smarter solution?

Not as far as I know.  You can do str[3,str.length-3] but this isn't
really an improvement unless you value the absence of negative integers in
this expression. :-)

    robert