daz wrote: > I think your description is consistent with reading > input from file(s) opened in binary mode? Arg! You're right, of course. Gotta love Windows. Thanks for the tip, and sorry for the noise... -- Jamis Buck jgb3 / email.byu.edu http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis ruby -h | ruby -e 'a=[];readlines.join.scan(/-(.)\[e|Kk(\S*)|le.l(..)e|#!(\S*)/) {|r| a << r.compact.first };puts "\n>#{a.join(%q/ /)}<\n\n"'