How to split a string in Ruby and get all items except the first one?

Question

String is ex=\"test1, test2, test3, test4, test5\"

when I use

ex.split(\",\").first

it returns

\"test1\"
         


        

Answer 1

ex="test1,test2,test3,test4,test5"
all_but_first=ex.split(/,/)[1..-1]