Hello! I am wonderig what the ?. does in the following code: aFile ¨Βιμε®ξεχ¨ΆτεστζιμεΆaFile.each_byte ¨Βόγθό ¨Βυτ¤Β ¨Βθ» ¨Βυτγ® ¨Β sorry, if the question is stupid. all I found in my book about the '?' sign was the meaning in regular expressions. thanks manu