From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-11-17T12:40:00+09:00
Subject: Re: substring: to the end of the string

Hi,

At Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:58:55 +0900,
Austin Ziegler wrote:
> As Gavin pointed out, regexen are overkill here. However, the
> technique is worth noting:

Another syntax sugar,

> class String
>   def substring(start, len = nil)
>     if len.nil?
        self[/\A.{#{start}}(.*)/m, 1]
>     else
        self[/\A.{#{start}}(.{#{len}})/m, 1]
>     end
>     $1
>   end
> end

-- 
Nobu Nakada