From: Michael Libby Date: 2008-08-05T06:25:08+09:00 Subject: Re: hash code reference - this only returns 'nil' please help me On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Mmcolli00 Mom wrote: > Sebastian Hungerecker wrote: >> Mmcolli00 Mom wrote: >>> puts ErrFieldID #This correctly shows 25127 >> >> Try p ErrFieldID > No that didn't work. It only showed the reference key in brackets: > ['25127']. I need it to show the value from the hash: 'RefProvNPI' It did work. It means that ErrFieldID is an array containing a single string. Not the same as your hash key, which is just a string. -Michael