From: Stefan Rusterholz Date: 2007-07-05T08:13:32+09:00 Subject: Re: How to find at which line characters appear Whoops, I should have read this paragraph too: >> Basically I want to start reading a text file after the "---------" line >> that appears in it. Then of course I'd do it just as Brett already said: read until you get there not processing the data, then continue to read, this time processing the data. Regards Stefan -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.