Hi, Am Freitag, 18. Jan 2008, 16:04:09 +0900 schrieb Prasad Pednekar: > But aint there any other altenative, As I am a begiiner in ruby just > wanted to know if we could take in the input through "gets" method in a > safe way??? There is also <http://www.caliban.org/ruby/ruby-password.shtml>. I forgot why I did not like it and wrote my own. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de