"Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder55 / gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
>> "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder55 / gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>>> 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].

    I saw that.  I'm not sure what it was about an index that made you think 
that I wanted the last x number of characters but that the second parameter 
was string.size - 1 should have tipped you off as to what was known and what 
was desired...