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  String problem Cyril Jose <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-20 11:48 -0500
    Re: String problem Hans Mackowiak <hanmac@gmx.de> - 2011-04-20 11:52 -0500
      Re: String problem Cyril Jose <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-20 11:54 -0500
        Re: String problem Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-23 00:04 +0200
    Re: String problem Cyril Jose <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-21 20:36 -0500
    Re: String problem "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-22 19:38 +0000

#3253 — String problem

Hello all,

I am trying to read characters in a string but I want to ignore the
first character and the newline at the end of the string, then store the
characters in between into a new variable:

str = ">Hello World\n"
new_var = " Hello World"

Any ideas to point me in the right direction?

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#3254

str = ">Hello World\n"
str[1..-2] #=> "Hello World"

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#3255

Hans Mackowiak wrote in post #994076:
> str = ">Hello World\n"
> str[1..-2] #=> "Hello World"

Forgot to mention that I have a bunch of these types of strings of all 
different lengths...thanks for the quick reply however!

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#3392

On 20.04.2011 18:54, Cyril Jose wrote:
> Hans Mackowiak wrote in post #994076:
>> str = ">Hello World\n"
>> str[1..-2] #=>  "Hello World"
>
> Forgot to mention that I have a bunch of these types of strings of all
> different lengths...thanks for the quick reply however!

Hans's suggestion does work with different length strings

irb(main):001:0> 5.times {|i| s="a"+("b"*i)+"x";puts s, s[1..-2]}
ax

abx
b
abbx
bb
abbbx
bbb
abbbbx
bbbb
=> 5

Kind regards

	robert

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#3349

Thanks guys. Found what I was looking for.

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#3389

Cyril Jose wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to read characters in a string but I want to ignore the
> first character and the newline at the end of the string, then store the
> characters in between into a new variable:
> 
> str = ">Hello World\n"
> new_var = " Hello World"
> 
> Any ideas to point me in the right direction?

">Hello World\n"[ /.(.*)/, 1]
    ==>"Hello World"
">Hello World\n".rstrip[ 1 .. -1]
    ==>"Hello World"

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