From: Chris Date: 2006-05-12T23:51:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Is there a method for incrementing string names?!? Alex Young wrote: > irb(main):003:0> s = s.succ > => "aaa3" Note the "aaa9".succ => "aab1" So if you only want the number incremented be sure to append enough 0s -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.