From: Jeffrey Smith Date: 2011-09-04T06:59:52+09:00 Subject: opening a file with variable name --Apple-Mail-7--374945713 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello All, I have what I believe to be an easy question. Is it possible to open a = file that is defined as a variable name?If it is possible, how would I = go about it?=20 I have tried File.open(variable), but I always get an error message = stating "Invaild argument - path to file (Errno::EINVAL). Thanks, Jeff= --Apple-Mail-7--374945713--