From: dagbrown@... (Dave Brown)
Date: 2004-01-15T05:46:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the tail of a list?

In article <20040114130426.GA15734@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu>,
KONTRA Gergely  <kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu> wrote:
: On 0113, Robert Klemme wrote:
: > > Whups, never mind, that doesn't work. :)
: > 
: > But this does:
: > 
: > irb(main):001:0> a=[1,2,3,4]
: > => [1, 2, 3, 4]
: > irb(main):002:0> a[1,a.length]
: > => [2, 3, 4]
: > 
: > The second parameter is the length.  Simply using a.length is sufficient
: > since then all elements to the end are used.
: 
: I _would like to_ write a[2,Infinity], or something like that...

a[1,-1]

--Dave