Daniel Finnie wrote: > You can eliminate the double quotations so it is: > puts "This is the name #{name}" > > Or use direct concatenation with the two strings: > puts "This is the name" + " #{name}" > > But that would be silly when you can just move the space over and not > have the whole #{} thing: > puts "This is the name " + #{name} Thanks, Li -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.