From: ts Date: 2002-07-09T18:33:40+09:00 Subject: Re: is there a better string.each? >>>>> "S" == Sean Russell writes: S> .... which happens to be fine, as long as you're dealing with 7 or 8 bit S> ASCII. It tends to break once you move into the realm of multi-byte S> encodings. Apparently, you are working with "text" files, this is not my case. Guy Decoux