From: "Peña, Botp" Date: 2006-04-20T18:41:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Write Out Then Read In Hash of Two-element Arrays David Bailey wrote last Thursday, April 20, 2006 5:01 PM: ... # fileOut.puts(histHash[i]) ^^^^^ there is a problem here. consider.. irb(main):003:0> puts [10,1] 10 1 => nil irb(main):004:0> puts [10,1].to_s 101 => nil i think you wanted the latter, so fileOut.puts(histHash[i].to_s) should do. some tips: 1 try unit test 2 yaml 3 marshal kind regards -botp