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Re: String problem

From Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.ruby
Subject Re: String problem
Date 2011-04-23 00:04 +0200
Message-ID <91ecb8F9dsU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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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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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

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