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.

On Oct 30, 4:11�am, Bertram Scharpf <li... at (no spam) bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
[...]
By the way: Still I'm convinced that there should be a
`String#notempty?' method corresponding to `Numeric#nonzero?'.

Bertram

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Maybe I'm totally missing the point here,

but I thought String.any?
was good enough to tell whether a string has contents:

'asdf'.any? # => true
''.any? # => false

'asdf'.empty? # => false
''.empty? # => true

"Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder55 at (no spam) 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

G_ F_ wrote:
On Oct 30, 4:11 am, Bertram Scharpf <li... at (no spam) bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
[...]
By the way: Still I'm convinced that there should be a
`String#notempty?' method corresponding to `Numeric#nonzero?'.

Bertram

--
Bertram Scharpf
Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germanyhttp://www.bertram-scharpf.de

Maybe I'm totally missing the point here,

You are.

but I thought String.any?
was good enough to tell whether a string has contents:

'asdf'.any? # => true
''.any? # => false

'asdf'.empty? # => false
''.empty? # => true

No. Bertram's idea was a bit different as far as I can tell.  I think he
was saying that just as we have
5.nonzero? # => 5
we should have
'foo'.notempty? # => 'foo'

I think it's a good idea, but since it's so trivial to implement, I
doubt that it needs to be a core extension.
Best,
--
Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org
mar... at (no spam) marnen.org

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Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
"Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder55 at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
news:d3oHm.2522$1R3.528 at (no spam) 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].

"Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryde... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in
messagenews:d3oHm.2522$1R3.528 at (no spam) 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...

"Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder55 at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
news:FBGHm.79$sY5.70 at (no spam) newsfe17.iad...
Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
"Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder55 at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
news:d3oHm.2522$1R3.528 at (no spam) 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

Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
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Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
"Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder55 at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
news:d3oHm.2522$1R3.528 at (no spam) 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.