-------------------------------1154530812 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cyrus, I see what you mean. As a quick fix, one might just convert the range (a..b) to an array: c ..b).to_a and chop off the first element, and create a Range from the result. This may not be as concise as the ... notation. I can't tell how important the community would find such a feature implemented. Best regards, Axel -------------------------------1154530812--