--On Saturday, November 15, 2003 12:48 AM +0900 KONTRA Gergely 
<kgergely / mlabdial.hit.bme.hu> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is there any easiest way to get the substring starting from the 3rd
> character?
>
> my solution:
> str[3..-1] which seems quite odd :-/

I typically use str[3..str.length].. It's probably slower, but it looks a 
bit cleaner in code..

Regards,
-JD-