From: Josselin Date: 2007-01-13T01:00:12+09:00 Subject: DRY gsub... I wrote the following ruby statements.. I get the result I need , I tried to DRY it for 2 hours without being successfull , d = d.gsub(/\r\n/,' ') # get rid of carriage return d = d.gsub(/;/,' ') # replace column by space d = d.gsub(/,/,' ') # replace comma by space a = d.split(' ') # split into component , space as divider tfyl Joss