From: ts Date: 2000-12-17T03:40:34+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:7456] Re: question: 'A'..'k' >>>>> "J" == Joseph McDonald writes: J> It looks like ranges can't "jump" from uppercase to lowercase. J> So it gets all the way to Z and hits the brick wall. Try ruby -e 'p (("A" .. "ZA").length)' ruby -e 'p (("A" .. "DXXXX").length)' Guy Decoux