From: Dan Diebolt Date: 2005-12-22T07:31:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Odd behavior of String#scan --0-2044349648-1135204258=:31378 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Will this do? s="abcSTARTdef,ghi,jkl,ENDmno" s.scan(/START(.*)END/).to_s.split(",") => ["def", "ghi", "jkl"] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-2044349648-1135204258=:31378--