"Dat Nguyen" <thucdat / hotmail.com> writes: > irb(main):003:0> word(0) > NameError: undefined method `word' for #<Object:0x40183ed4> > (irb):3:in `irb_binding' > irb(main):004:0> That should be word[0]. Square brackets are for indexing, and round parentheses (in this context) indicate the parameter list for a method call. Regards Dave