Johnathan Wagner wrote: > Thanks for your fast answer. > > One last question, if you can help me. > > How can I compare each characters in a string? You can compare each character individually by using the each_byte method, however that gives you the ASCII representation of the character. In your case I would split each line by spaces to get each number as a substring like so: File.open("myfile.txt").each do |line| line.split(" ").each do |num| # do your work here end end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.