JAVoAM 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! "123456".last 4 I don't even know if this was mentioned in the thread before or not, but hey, there it is. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.