[Newbies] substring

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Volkmann <mark at ociweb.com> writes:

Mark> I can't find a method to give me a substring of a String from a given
Mark> index to the end. The copyFrom:to: method requires telling it the end.
Mark> Does a method exist where you only specify the starting point? I know I
Mark> could write it myself, but I don't want to do that if it's already
Mark> there.

Look at all senders of #copyFrom:to: in the SequenceableCollection class.
The one you want may already be there, just named a bit odd.

In fact, there's #allButFirst: which seems to be what you want, except
that it's off by one.

That is,

   'abcde' allButFirst: 2

would return 'cde'.

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