From: Cthulhu __ Date: 2008-06-19T23:16:17+09:00 Subject: Re: parsing text into usablle numerical data Thank you all for the valuable suggestions. The program works fine now, reads the data in very nicely and I have learned alot about Ruby. I'll certainly be using it a lot more in the future. cheers --m -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.