adam beazley wrote: >thanks for your reply, I believe i understand, however I dont know how >to make C:\Program Files\@Last Software\SketchUp 5\Materials the current >directory in the program. Or how to make an option where the user can >type in, or browse to their own directory. > >But on the string answer of your question: >img.each do |img| > p img >end > >Does that mean that p will be a variable that will hold all the image >names? > >thanks > > > img = Dir['*.jpg'] sets img to an array of the image names. the p in the next piece of code just means "do something." That code iterates through the array of image names. instead of p img, you could say print img, etc.