From: "Peña, Botp" Date: 2008-06-16T16:51:26+09:00 Subject: Re: array to string conversion From: clement.ow@asia.bnpparibas.com # However, I now encounter another problem.. # Assuming my hash: # ex = {} # ex[0] = [".xls", ".ini", "20080326"] # ex[1] = ["RVG", ".xls", ".rb"] # I need to extract the values in each array with the extentions(values # with periods) into one string and the dir names(values without the # periods) into another string. I've been tryin to figure out but to no # avail, is there a clean way to do that? Hi Clement, pardon me because i cannot picture the problem. can you give an example? kind regards -botp