From: "Thomas Søndergaard" Date: 2002-08-11T22:50:24+09:00 Subject: Re: empty file returns nil not empty string? Oh, and I'm using Andy's latest windows installers. The versions are: $ /C/ruby167/bin/ruby --version ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i586-mswin32] $ /C/ruby172/bin/ruby --version ruby 1.7.2 (2002-07-02) [i386-mswin32] Thomas