Ruby String Exercises: Remove the first and last two characters from a specified string

Ruby String: Exercise-14 with Solution

Write a Ruby program to remove the first and last two characters from a specified string.

Ruby Code:

def check_string(str)
   str = str[2...-2]
   return str
end
print check_string("JavaScript")
print "\n",check_string("Python")
print "\n",check_string("Ruby")
print "\n",check_string("PHP")

Output:

vaScri
th

Flowchart:

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