From: jeem@... Date: 2006-03-03T01:23:39+09:00 Subject: Re: gsub problem irb(main):035:0* str="[1,2][2,1][3,1][4,1]" => "[1,2][2,1][3,1][4,1]" irb(main):036:0> str.gsub '][', '],[' => "[1,2],[2,1],[3,1],[4,1]" irb(main):037:0> str += ',' => "[1,2][2,1][3,1][4,1]," irb(main):038:0> str.chomp ',' => "[1,2][2,1][3,1][4,1]" Jim