On Sep 10, 7:07 am, James Edward Gray II <ja... / grayproductions.net> wrote: > On Sep 9, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Eugene Kalenkovich wrote: > > > TOTEENS=[nil, 'one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven > > twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen > > nineteen'.split].flatten > > A small suggestion: > > >> %w{one two three ...} > => ["one", "two", "three", "..."] Moreover: irb(main):001:0> [ nil, *%w| two three | ] => [nil, "two", "three"] No need to flatten.