Daniel Harple wrote: > 1.is_a?(Numeric) # => true > > -- Daniel Thank you. I thought it was something to that effect. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for me. However I find that the above returns: 1.is_a(Numeric) NoMethodError: undefined method `is_a' for 1:Fixnum from (irb):4 from :0 while, 1.is_a? Numeric does indeed return true. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.