Hi! At Thu, 6 Jul 2006 01:19:43 +0900, Logan Capaldo wrote: > > On Jul 5, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote: > > > blouse,skirt,bra,panty,tatoo = "watashi wa kawaii desu honto".split > > blouse,skirt,bra,panty,tatoo=%w[watashi wa kawaii desu honto] I found splitting a string better expresses the intentended meaning. Anyway, while it is possible to use any nonalphabetic or non-multibyte character as delimiter including '[' I think that one should not use square brackets with %w unless there is a convincingly good reason for this because the resulting syntax strongly ressembles literal arrays. Personally I tend to avoid curly braces as well and rather use ordinary parentheses so that %w has the form of a prefix operator (read: function call): blouse,skirt,bra,panty,tatoo=%w(watashi wa kawaii desu honto) Just my 0.02 EUR, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt