RosettaCodeData/Task/Substring-Top-and-tail/Ruby/substring-top-and-tail.rb

puts "knight"[1..-1]   # strip first character
puts "socks"[0..-2]    # strip last character
puts "socks".chop      # alternate way to strip last character
puts "brooms"[1..-2]   # strip both first and last characters
puts "与今令"[1..-2]    # => 今