From: James Edward Gray II Date: 2006-08-15T22:28:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Trouble parsing against a hash On Aug 15, 2006, at 8:14 AM, Peter Bailey wrote: > You mean, it's because I was simply missing quotes around my "#{}" > expression that it was regarded as a comment? Well, I guess I can > certainly understand that. Thanks a lot. Right. But never use: "#{var}" because that's just a confusing way to say: var.to_s And if the variable is already a String, you really just want: var James Edward Gray II