"Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst / hurstlinks.com> writes:

> I was trying to find the equivalent to substr() in ruby,
> and came across String#slice, which seemed to have that
> and much more.

I forgot to reference this in my previous post. There are also
examples at

   http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_string.html#slice

And a fuller description at

   http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_string.html#_ob_cb


Regards


Dave