From: gaurav bagga Date: 2006-09-05T01:08:48+09:00 Subject: times is a method? ------=_Part_11074_17184534.1157386125826 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Fixnum.ancestors.each do |x| p "------------------------------------:#{x}---------------------------------" x.methods.each do |y| p y if y =~ /^t/ end end hi all, i was trying this code and thought of getting all methods starting with t in search of times but the result shows no times. i am new to blocks concept what i know till now is like you define a method and use "yield" to call a block. but if times takes in a block and prints it that many times if print given then why times is not being shown in the list. i hope regular expression i am using is correct i am new to that too but the listed methods began with "t" in result. one more thing... if i want to try something like 5 = MyNum.new how to do that .. i did something but dint work..... thanks in advance regards gaurav v bagga ------=_Part_11074_17184534.1157386125826--