From: darren kirby Date: 2008-04-01T13:36:07+09:00 Subject: Re: assignment if key_exist? in Hash quoth the Julian Leviston: > What he's saying is if you want to retain the value of "false" or > "nil", that won't work too well Ahh, OK. Not a prob. In my use case the hash key will be set to a string or it will not exist. Thanks all, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972