Here is my submission. I hope it's flexible enough for the followup quizzes. I sensed there might be a need to access the fields of a match by name, which is why I added the RuleMatch#fields method. It returns a hash that allows code like puts Rule.match(line).fields['amount'] # prints the value of the <amount> field This method isn't used in the current code however. But who knows, it might come in handy later on. You can find my submission at http://www.pastie.org/224480 - Matthias -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.