Hi -- On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Ruby Quiz wrote: > It's important to remember that this is the Regular Expression definition of > "words", including digit characters and the underscore. That's not a perfect > match for the quiz task, but was a popular choice nonetheless. > > Now, I did say *all* words are scrambled and that is what I meant. A run of > four or more punctuation characters is a word, and the middle punctuation would > be scrambled. In practice, this is rare enough to be a minor issue. "Are you kiddin'?!" he exclaimed :-) I thought some of the solutions addressed these problems, didn't they, with [^\W\d_] and such? David -- David A. Black (dblack / wobblini.net) Ruby Power and Light, LLC (http://www.rubypowerandlight.com) "Ruby for Rails" PDF now on sale! http://www.manning.com/black Paper version coming in early May!