At 11:40 AM -0800 3/8/07, Rich Morin wrote: > Point taken, but it didn't work even without the puts. > So, my Ruby question remains... Actually, I just tried reworking the script to resolve the return value issue and the problem went away. Dunno why it didn't work last night, save that it was rather late out... Thanks for the clue! -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm / cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development