Hi everybody, After reading the "Refactoring for PL/SQL Developers" in the January issue of the Oracle magazine, I tried to implement a program that compares two files for equality. I came up with the following trivial solution puts (IO.readlines file[0]) == (IO.readlines file[1]) Have you got any other suggestions? Kind Regards, Ed -- Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. -- George Bernard Shaw