In my application, I cannot allow the user to enter the "\" character in their URL. The only problem is, if I try if sURL.include? "\", it gives me an error, because I'm guessing it assumes that I am trying to escape chars with the "\" character. If so, how can I check whether the variable sURL contains the | character? Sorry for such a dumb question. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.