Michael W. Ryder wrote:
> Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
>>     I'm actually hoping this is an embarrassing question but how do 
>> you get the tail end of a string?  All I've figured out is this:
>>
>> index = 4
>> string[index, string.size - index]
>>
>>     ...but surely there's a better way.  This happens to me a lot and 
>> I really appreciate Python's curt syntax in this case:  string[index:]
>>     What's the Ruby way?
>>     Thank you!
>>
> You mean like string[-1]?

I'm sorry, I missed the part about the index number of characters.  Try 
string[-index, index].