From: Ralph Shnelvar Date: 2010-08-12T09:12:44+09:00 Subject: Re: Can't change the value of self - II ------------BC189777E9A1E7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 5:52:57 PM, you wrote: jR> You can use the #replace method to do that sort of thing: jR> self.replace "Help! Oh, well, I'm saved!" jR> This method is defined in classes String, Hash, Array, and Set, and jR> works the same way in each one. jR> jeremy jeremy, That's great and solves my particular problem. But what if the class being derived from does not have a replace method? Ralph ------------BC189777E9A1E7--