Following is the international alphabetical spelling used especially by pilots: Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrott Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whisky X-Ray Yankee Zulu Since my name is hard to spell, I often have to use this international spelling. I am trying to write a very short and compact program in Ruby and compare with the version in Perl, Python & Tcl of mine. The program should read from stdin, for instance, my name: Dat Nguyen and output: Delta Alpha Tango November Golf Uniform Yankee Echo November I am thinking along the line of an associative array like what I would do in Perl. Please any Ruby senior show me the Ruby version of this program. Dat ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com