From: David Alan Black Date: 2001-11-17T01:56:56+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:25524] Re: Getting a class object from a string containg its name Hmmm... or even: class String def to_class type.const_get(self) end end p "Array".to_class.new # [] David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav