SyntaxFix

[ruby] How to get a substring of text?

Use String#slice, also aliased as [].

a = "hello there"
a[1]                   #=> "e"
a[1,3]                 #=> "ell"
a[1..3]                #=> "ell"
a[6..-1]               #=> "there"
a[6..]                 #=> "there" (requires Ruby 2.6+)
a[-3,2]                #=> "er"
a[-4..-2]              #=> "her"
a[12..-1]              #=> nil
a[-2..-4]              #=> ""
a[/[aeiou](.)\1/]      #=> "ell"
a[/[aeiou](.)\1/, 0]   #=> "ell"
a[/[aeiou](.)\1/, 1]   #=> "l"
a[/[aeiou](.)\1/, 2]   #=> nil
a["lo"]                #=> "lo"
a["bye"]               #=> nil

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