At 19:23 11.05.01 +0900, Renald Buter wrote: >Sorry to raise another newbie question, > >Coming from a perl world, I like to write something like > > %hash = qw( foo led bar tender ) > >and have a hash initialized to > > {foo => led, bar => tender} > >Is anything like this possible in Ruby? hash = Hash[foo, led, bar, tender] See http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_hash.html#_ob_cb - Tammo - Tammo Freese freese / acm.org