Hi, Ak 756 wrote: > Hi > > I have a .txt file which contains one line data as > > "George",33,"engineer, r&d department, this company","234-7554-344" > > I use name,age,memo,tel=File.open(filename).split(',') to collect values > but get wrong value for memo and tel. I want string "engineer, r&d > department, this company" not be splited by comma, how can I do that? Why not use csv module? require 'csv' data = '"George",33,"engineer, r&d department, this company","234-7554-344"' name,age,memo,tel=CSV.parse_line(data) Regards, Park Heesob -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.