Issue #459 has been updated by James Gray. I apologize, that second example had multiple errors. Here's the correct example, still broken: $ ruby -r scanf -e '"Name James Computers 2 Name Greg Computers 4".scanf("Name %s Computers %i") { |name, count| p [name, count] }' ["James", nil] ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/459 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org