From: Chris Game Date: 2005-08-01T19:26:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Loading data (variables) Brian Schr�der wrote: > irb(main):001:0> eval(File.read('data.rb')) Thanks - that appears to do the trick. although I'm still not clear why 'load"filename" ' doesn't make the data available and eval(...) does. -- Chris Game "I do not write for such dull elves, As have not a great deal of ingenuity themselves." -- Jane Austen