Getting last character from a string

[draco draco]

Hello
I'm new to Ruby. I've a simple question.
Is there a more readable way to get last character from string than this
one? :

x = "text"
last_char = x[x.length-1, x.length-1]

 

[James Edward Gray II]

Hello
Hello.

I'm new to Ruby.

Welcome then.

I've a simple question.
Is there a more readable way to get last character from string than
this
one? :

x = "text"
last_char = x[x.length-1, x.length-1]

Strings can take a negative index, which count backwards from the end
of the String, and an length of how many characters you want (one in
this example). Using that:

"test"[-1, 1] # => "t"

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II

 

[Wilson Bilkovich]

Hello
I'm new to Ruby. I've a simple question.
Is there a more readable way to get last character from string than this
one? :

x =3D "text"
last_char =3D x[x.length-1, x.length-1]

You can do:
last_char =3D x[-1,1]
or # possibly too arcane
last_char =3D x.split('').last

The second has the advantage of being (I think) multibyte-character safe.

 

[William James]

Hello
I'm new to Ruby. I've a simple question.
Is there a more readable way to get last character from string than this
one? :

x = "text"
last_char = x[x.length-1, x.length-1]

"abc"[ -1..-1 ]

"abc".slice(-1,1)

"abc".slice(-1).chr

"abc"[ /.$/ ]

"abc".reverse[0,1]

"abc".split('').pop

class String
def last
self[-1,1]
end
end

"abc".last

 

[draco draco]

Wow

x[-1,1] looks far more readable than x[x.length-1, x.length-1]

Thanks a lot