From: John Pywtorak Date: 2006-10-18T09:36:35+09:00 Subject: Seems so simple, but is this really the only way, or most direct way? 9 digits in a string "123456789", convert to individual Fixnums [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], or as below a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i = id.scan(/\d/).map(&:to_i) Simpler yet how about ["1", "2", ...]. Is scan the only direct way? I tried the "*" mechanism, no such luck, and tried array slicing again no luck. TIA -- John Pywtorak Cal Poly State University ITS/ASAS 805-756-5906