What's the Ruby equivalent of Python's output[:-1]?
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In Python, if I want to get the first n characters of a string minus the last character, I do:
output = 'stackoverflow'
print output[:-1]
I can do the above in Ruby with:
output = 'stackoverflow'
output.reverse[1..output.length]
Is there another way to perform this action in Ruby?
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