Re: [Pharo-users] Noob Question - slicing

From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of K K Subbu Sent: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 16:45 To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Noob Question - slicing > '1234567890' copyFrom: 5 to: 8 "5678" > > Page 207 in

Re: [Pharo-users] Noob Question - slicing

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 12:00, Craig Johnson > wrote: What is the simplest way to copy characters between positions 4 and 8 from a string in Pharo? '1234567890' copyFrom: 5 to: 8 "5678" Page 207 in Updated Pharo by Example book explains more on substrings.

Re: [Pharo-users] Noob Question - slicing

In Calypso, select the checkbox next to the virtual category 'instance side', which will show all inherited methods (below Object) in the same browser, scroll to copy. #drop:take: sounds totally obscure to me, way worse than #copyFrom:to: first: or last: And what is your point with the Unicode

Re: [Pharo-users] Noob Question - slicing

Nice reply Richard - do you ever post any of these in a blog - the one below would be a great one to point to from Exercism... > On 6 Mar 2019, at 12:48, Richard O'Keefe wrote: > > As someone else already pointed out, the standard way to copy > part of any array-like sequence is >aSequence

Re: [Pharo-users] Noob Question - slicing

As someone else already pointed out, the standard way to copy part of any array-like sequence is aSequence copyFrom: firstIncludedIndex to: lastIncludedIndex How could you have found this by yourself? >From the background, either Click-select Tools-select Playground or hold Ctrl down while t

Re: [Pharo-users] Noob Question - slicing

On 5/3/19 17:59, Craig Johnson wrote: > > Hi All, > >   > > I was trying to figure an elegant way to slice strings (Python style), > and came up empty. > >   > > What is the simplest way to copy characters between positions 4 and 8 > from a string in Pharo? > >   > > Craig > You can use: 'String