From: Toki Toki Date: 2008-05-03T02:30:56+09:00 Subject: How to search words starting with a particular char? Hi to all! I need to search how many words are starting with a specific character in a text file, no problem to read the file, but after that I split it in words, how can I search all occurencies that's matching my criteria in the resulting array? Maybe split isn't the best solution? I would like an output similar to this: Number of words starting with ' ' = 12345 Here's the code: txt = File.read("C:\\text.txt") list = txt.split Thanks. Best regards. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.