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Asked: 2026-06-18T03:41:08+00:00

How would I go about removing the characters < and > from only a

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How would I go about removing the characters < and > from only a specific part of a string, say from the first 200 characters in that string? Those characters should remain untouched if they appeared after the 200 character mark.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Non-desctuctively:

    text = "foo < bar > baz" * 20
"#{text[0...200].tr("<>", "")}#{text[200..-1]}"

    Or, destructively:

    text = "foo < bar > baz" * 20
text[0...200] = text[0...200].tr("<>", "")
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