On Sep 16, 3:15 pm, dbl... / wobblini.net wrote: > > > But the original project examples at > > >http://www.rubyhacker.com/code/scanf/ > > > might get you going... > > That version is obsolete; it's best to use the one that ships with > Ruby. You have to require it, though -- it's standard library rather > than core. > > require 'scanf' > p "abc 123".scanf("%s%d") => ["abc", 123] > > There's considerable documentation in the source file, but it's not in > rdoc form. It's on my to-do list.... Thanks -- this resolves my issue. Seems like the docs on scanf are simply outdated. :-) Alex