From: "NoƩ Alejandro" Date: 2011-11-11T21:04:01+09:00 Subject: Re: The fastest way to read files Hi Robert. Basically read their content in order to remove blanks, punctuation marks and lowercasing the text. I don't need to rewrite the information, only read them and then close them. Regards. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.