Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
> "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder55 / gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:d3oHm.2522$1R3.528 / newsfe18.iad...
>> What method doesn't work?  If you mean the string[-index, index] method it 
>> does work fine for me.  I am using 1.9.1 if that makes any difference. 
>> The string[-index..-1] method does the same thing but I have used Business 
>> Basic for over 20 years so my method was easier for me.
> 
>     In retrospect, I'm surprised I put it so harshly but it doesn't do the 
> same thing as the other method.  Your solution requires that you know how 
> long a tail you need.  If, instead, you know how much of the head you need 
> to remove but don't know or care how long the tail is, your method is 
> insufficient...
> 
> 
If all you wanted was the last character of a string then using 
string[-1,1] does the same thing as string[-1..1] with less typing. This 
was my original solution but seeing the index in your OP I thought you 
wanted to take the last x number of characters from a string so offered 
the other solution. In fact using 1.9.1 you can simplify this to just 
string[-1].