From: Craig Demyanovich Date: 2008-08-31T06:38:50+09:00 Subject: Re: Another Chris Pine Tutorial Question ------=_Part_16144_16378106.1220132623073 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Have you already been introduced to String#<=> [ http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000778 ] ? You could use it as the basis for comparing each of the input strings to all others that you've collected so far. How's that for a push in one direction? Regards, Craig ------=_Part_16144_16378106.1220132623073--