From: Robert Klemme Date: 2008-03-13T17:22:32+09:00 Subject: Re: whats the error here? 2008/3/12, Adam Akhtar : > So is there a way to create a copy of one of the elements in a hash > which will be totally unconnected so that this referencing never takes > place??? Create a deep copy. One often used idiom is: copy = Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(x)) Cheers robert -- use.inject do |as, often| as.you_can - without end