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## Overview
The **`chr` method** removes the first character of a string in Ruby. It removes the one-character string at the beginning of a string and returns this character.

## Syntax
```ruby
str.chr
```

## Parameters
**`str`**: This is the string that calls the `chr` method.

## Return value
The string's first character is returned, which calls the `chr` method.

# create some strings
str1 = "Welcome"
str2 = "to"
str3 = "Edpresso"

# remove first characters
a = str1.chr
b = str2.chr
c = str3.chr

# print returned values
puts a 
puts b
puts c

As we can see above, the first characters of the strings were removed and printed out on the console.

How to remove the first character of a string in Ruby using chr

The Ruby `chr` method extracts and returns the first character of a string.