From: Smgspices@... Date: 2006-11-20T10:40:33+09:00 Subject: Re: newbie: pipe -------------------------------1163986823 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/19/2006 2:20:31 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, dak@gnu.org writes: John Giles writes: > Im pretty new to programming in general and ruby is only the second > language that ive taken on. ive been reading around looking at code > examples etc.. and something that keeps coming up is pipe ie: > |something_in_here|. Could someone give an example of how this works and > what it exactly does because ive never seen it before and google > isnt helping. It is declaring an argument to a block. If you have never seen it before, you should shred your introduction to Ruby. But it sounds like you already did, and that might be your problem. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Boy! That was a lot of help David. Remind me to call on you whenever I need help. Charles Gray -------------------------------1163986823--