Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
> "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder55 / gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:FBGHm.79$sY5.70 / newsfe17.iad...
>> 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].
> 
>     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... 
> 
> 
I saw this in your original post, maybe it came over changed going 
through the newsgroup filter:

|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]

Since index seemed to be set to an arbitrary value I thought you wanted 
the last 4 characters of the string.  I do something similar a lot when 
parsing variables containing city, state, and zip code in one field.  I 
parse out the last 5 characters for the zip code and then assume that 
the last two non-blank characters are the state abbreviation, and the 
remainder is the city name.
Otherwise I could not understand what you were trying to do with your 
code.  Sorry for the confusion.