Paolo Capriotti wrote:

>On 3/3/06, Mage <mage / mage.hu> wrote:
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>>       Hello,
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>>suppose that:
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>>a = 'hello there'
>>and I need 'llo there'
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>>a[2,a.size] works, but I find it ugly because the given length is larger
>>than the real length of the result.
>>a[2,a.size - 2] is okay, but it is not DRY.
>>
>>Is there any elegant way, like a[2:] in Python?
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>a[2..-1]
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Thank you, I`ve only tried a[2,-1] before the letter. My fault.

       Mage