"David Douthitt" <DDouthitt / cuna.com> writes: > If I change the snippet as recommended (twice over!) I get: > > -:9: undefined local variable or method `comment?' for #<Object:0x40061860> (NameError) > from -:8:in `each' > from -:8 > from -:7:in `open' > from -:7 That means that 'line' is type Object, and not a String. This is very strange. Could you possibly post the failing code so we can try it here? Thanks Dave