From: David Alan Black Date: 2002-01-18T22:33:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Hello! Array sub classing? Hello -- On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Markt wrote: > Have to admit I'm making hard work of this... > > Still not cracked it. > > I;m trying to read in a line of terxt, delimit it by tabs into an array, > then process it. > > Sometimes in processing a nil element is encountered. This stops > everything. > > Another problem I have is that the text can contain commas. > > So I'm thinking the arrary changes shape. Can you post some of your code? I'm not sure where it's going wrong, if you're using String#split("\t") (as Harry suggested). David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav