From: "Peña, Botp" Date: 2007-07-18T18:14:37+09:00 Subject: Re: Easily parsing a string to retrieve values and assign them to a variable/symbol. From: Eric DUMINIL [mailto:eric.duminil@gmail.com] # 'foobar'.parse_for_variables("foo#{name}",'#{') # NameError: undefined local variable or method `name' for main:Object oops, totally ignored that, was thinking about lazy evals.. i think you're current interface is good, it would be easy to infix the "#" later... kind regards -botp