Lorenzo E. Danielsson wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any particular idiom for removing a particular character from a > string *by index* and returning the resulting string? str[0...index]+str[index+1..-1] NB: this won't delete the char from str but only return a new string without the character at index. regards Stefan Rusterholz ("apeiros") -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.