Robert Thornton wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> I'm very new to Ruby but I'm enjoying what I've found so far.  I'm

Welcome!

> ...
> But that gives me an error in ftools.rb 'size' : No such file or
> directory.  I tried replacing "..\line" with "..\#{line}" and a few
> other things, but I got the same error message.

To put a backslash character in a double-quoted string, you have to repeat
yourself:

  "..\\#{line}"

Otherwise the interpreter thinks "\" is a prefix for some special
character, like "\n" for linefeed, etc.  Off the top of my head I don't
know if "\l" means anything in particular or not.

-- Mark