------ art_562_7087014.1200916182137 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline As per the Ruby documentation, string.count(character_set1,character_set2)first takes the intersection of character_set1 and character_set2 and then counts the number of times each character from the resulting intersection occurs in string. The program: a hooooooooooll' puts a.count "lo" "o" displays 10 in irb but displays 12 in Ruby 1.9. Why? ------ art_562_7087014.1200916182137--