Nick Shaw wrote: > Hi, Ive just started learning Ruby and I'm having a problem with the > following program. I'm running it on Ubuntu. > > lines = File.readlines("/home/nick/ruby/analyzer/oliver.txt") (...) f = "/home/nick/ruby/analyzer/oliver.txt" lines = File.new(f).readlines #the rest of your code is fine. The "f" thing is there because of this forum's line-width. Regards, Siep -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.