[Newbies] substring

[Todd Blanchard]

What's wrong with last:  ?

'abcdefg' last: 4

yields 'defg'

There's also first:

On Oct 3, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "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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