On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Seo ji won wrote: > but what I want to do is something like this ( sorry, in python semantics, > functions, ;-) It's a change from the Perl-ish pseudocode. :) > for i in range(0,100,5): > print i 0.step( 100, 5 ) { |i| print i } > p.s) How can I find such things?.. I've tried language/library reference, > but in vain. One of the nicer features of ri is that something like 'ri Integer' gives you a list of the methods for an Integer object (it takes a little getting used to if you come from Perl or Python to think of step or upto as methods of an int) of which step looks like a good candidate. -- Jonathan Conway The thing about Unix is that all the hoops are rise / knavery.net flaming, so at least you know where they are...