From: Robert Dober Date: 2008-07-31T02:53:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Suggestions for improving a trivial tag parser What about eles = split( %r{()} ).delete_if{|x| x.empty? } eles.size.one? ? eles.first : eles HTH Robert -- http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/ There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. -- Ernest Hemingway