Hi! On Jan 27, 2007, at 04:40, Marco Guiseppe wrote: > Yes, that makes sense. I've even found a much simpler solution to my > original problem that makes the question irrelevant. > > Thanks, everyone! I would like to notice, that if you ever need two separate objects, you can always use a dup method, e.g: string2 = string1.dup # Will have two different string instances Your sincerely, Damian/Three-eyed Fish