From: Todd Benson Date: 2008-03-21T07:56:50+09:00 Subject: Dealing properly with scope; came from:combine array(string) to string? In much of my code, I've built an Array object before a block for scope reasons. Is this common practice? b = %w|a b c d e| a = [] #instantiation b.each {|i| a << i*2} puts a Todd