From: "Jan E." Date: 2012-12-21T20:10:26+09:00 Subject: Re: trying to strip characters from a line Paul Mena wrote in post #1089769: > Thanks for the responses. Unfortunately neither is having the desired > result. Here is a "tail" of the outputted archive.html file: The "tail" doesn't tell us anything, we need your *code*. I'm pretty sure you've again confused "gsub" and "gsub!" (or "delete" and "delete!") like in your first post. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.