From: Nuralanur@... Date: 2006-03-16T17:34:47+09:00 Subject: Re: add to words syntaxes -------------------------------1142498065 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Actually, you may have problems with the tab searching, because these get converted to several blanks in a row when read by IO.readlines - but that can be corrected by letting a column separator be at least n blanks wide and searching for that - say, for at least 5 blanks as a separator - if x=~/ {5,}/ # first alternative else # second alternative end Sorry for the confusion.. Best regards Axel -------------------------------1142498065--