From: Craig Demyanovich Date: 2008-05-08T03:48:57+09:00 Subject: Re: hash adding values ------=_Part_892_22795569.1210186137174 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Looks like you forgot to change this line sktylist = Hash.new("") to sktylist = Hash.new( [] ) which makes the default value for new elements an empty array instead of a string. Only then can you use the << operator to push values on to the array. Regards, Craig ------=_Part_892_22795569.1210186137174--