From: Tiziano Merzi Date: 2008-01-08T23:26:26+09:00 Subject: Re: File operations Olita Olita wrote: > Hi, > could you tell me how to compare 2 files (if a block of the first file > contains the second file). You can load the two files in two strings str1 = IO.read("file1") str2 = IO.read("file2") and now search if str2 is contained in str1 ... if str1.include? str2 tiziano -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.