From: Daniel Carrera Date: 2002-12-07T12:55:50+09:00 Subject: Re: File > J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet, so ^J is ASCII character #10, > which Ruby tells me (10.chr) is "\n". 13.chr is "\r". > > Maybe a chomp! is in order. > > Gavin Thanks. That explains it all. Yes, I did need a chomp!. Daniel.