From: Vrone Ve Date: 2008-12-04T02:49:09+09:00 Subject: Re: string with \ What if There is some optional value which may appear in strings oftenly, and i want to check against its attribute value. or in other words its not necesary to have Name with its value every time in the string, and i want to have some checks on it ( e.g if Name attribute is there then grab its value before the back slash, then moving along all other attributes and chk there occurance take their value) thanks again -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.