In article <20040114130426.GA15734 / mlabdial.hit.bme.hu>, KONTRA Gergely <kgergely / mlabdial.hit.bme.hu> wrote: : On 0113, Robert Klemme wrote: : > > Whups, never mind, that doesn't work. :) : > : > But this does: : > : > irb(main):001:0> a=[1,2,3,4] : > => [1, 2, 3, 4] : > irb(main):002:0> a[1,a.length] : > => [2, 3, 4] : > : > The second parameter is the length. Simply using a.length is sufficient : > since then all elements to the end are used. : : I _would like to_ write a[2,Infinity], or something like that... a[1,-1] --Dave