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Ruby program to get a substring from the string

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will create a string variable and then we will get the substring from created string using a specified range index.

Program/Source Code

The source code to get a substring from the string is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to get a substring 
# from the string

Mystr = "Hello World";
SubStr= Mystr[2..7];

print "Mystr: ",Mystr,"\n";
print "SubStr: ",SubStr,"\n";

Output

Mystr: Hello World
SubStr: llo Wo

Explanation

In the above program, we created a string variable Mystr initialized with "Hello World". Then we got the substring using a specified range index and assigned it to the Substr variable. After that, we printed both variables.

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