Hi, Am Dienstag, 27. Okt 2009, 09:38:30 +0900 schrieb Ruby Mokx: > Hey everyone I'm a 14 year-old beginner in ruby and I discovered that I > need to separate strings into arrays for a program that I am making. > For example, if I have the string 'abc', I'll want to make it into the > array ['a', 'b', 'c']. Is there any way to do this? I am using version > 1.8.6, by the way. All help is welcome. Hey Mokx, the answer has been given. Let me start to disturb you. There's a difference between str.scan /./ # and str.scan /./u Your enthusiasm ist delighting me but the real world is rough. Cheer up. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de