From 547865bc3d9fc0a4196f34a44d7968ea0cfdb4d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:08:22 +0200
Subject: AS guide: documents String#first, and String#last

---
 railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile')

diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile
index b847e3b742..8e53672abd 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile
@@ -772,6 +772,14 @@ Returns the substring of the string up to position +position+:
 "hello".to(10) # => "hello"
 </ruby>
 
+h5. +first(limit = 1)+
+
+The call +str.first(n)+ is equivalent to +str.to(n-1)+ if +n+ > 0, and returns an empty string for +n+ == 0.
+
+h5. +last(limit = 1)+
+
+The call +str.last(n)+ is equivalent to +str.from(-n)+ if +n+ > 0, and returns an empty string for +n+ == 0.
+
 h3. Extensions to +Numeric+
 
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