From: Caio Tiago Oliveira Date: 2005-02-04T01:23:42+09:00 Subject: Re: chop problems BearItAll, 3/2/2005 09:05: > Strange really how I read that "Returns a new string..." a billion > times, without actually noticing what it said. @x = @x.chop is the same as @x.chop! @x.chop return a new string you can assing to a variable you want to.