From: Hassan Schroeder Date: 2011-09-04T07:48:07+09:00 Subject: Re: opening a file with variable name On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Jeffrey Smith wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. When I do a puts "path", this is what I get: \\faxgw04\c$\myapp\jobs\Processed\7.7.7\App Fax Service\sd3n4v1.20110902.1024.55435838.JMym.txt". This is the path to the file I want to open. ? What OS is this? Regardless, try changing all those '\' to '/' first :-) -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder@gmail.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan