On Fri, July 29, 2005 8:41 am, francisrammeloo@hotmail.com said:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having some trouble finding an elegant way of removing a part of a
> string based on an pattern.
>
> Suppose I want to chop off the "Begin" in the string "BeginCaption".
[snip]

With all the different responses you've received, it's obvious that the
Perl mantra "There's More Than One Way To Do It" also holds true with
Ruby. :-)

-- 
Jason Voegele
"There is an essential core at the center of each man and woman that
remains unaltered no matter how life's externals may be transformed
or recombined. But it's smaller than we think."
    -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the Long Sun