From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2000-12-30T02:22:36+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:8278] Re: use of backquotes Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:8245] use of backquotes" on 00/12/29, Holden Glova writes: |class RuntimeInterpreter | | def invoke(file) | `ruby -w #{file} 2>&1`.chomp! | end | |end Try and see how it runs if you changed chomp! into chomp. matz.