Thank you very much Marc, that was exactly what I was looking for. On Apr 17, 3:22 am, Marc Heiler <sheve... / linuxmail.org> wrote: > kelt wrote: > > Hey, > > > I am a newbee in Ruby and since the language has many nice features it > > struck me obvioous that it must be possible to evaluate a string in > > such a way that it produces the corresponding operator. E.g.: "+" > > would become a simple plus sign, thus allowing me to pass "+" as a > > function to be done on two integers. > > > Thank you > > > kelt > > 2.send("+",5) # => 7 > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.