Cutting off a Character from a String

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Hello, I just have a small question - how can I cut off the leading character of a string? For example, in my case, I have a list of telephone numbers with a 1 at the beginning... I need to say that if the string is 11 characters long, delete the first character. How can I do this? I am very new to RoR and the RDOC is kinda confusing...

Thanks in advance, - Jeff Miller

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if string.size == 11   string=string[1..11] end

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or even better...

string=string[1..11] if string.size==11

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http://www.noobkit.com/show/ruby/ruby/ruby-core/string

This is where i get all my string info... great site...

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Thanks everyone!