Block syntax is also clearly explained in "The Ruby Programming Language" by Flanagan & Matsumoto in section 5.4.1. Kyle wrote: > Oh lawd i'm a total jackass for not realizing there was more to the > e-mail. > Disregard the previous nonsense. | | is used to indicate a block > variable. Ya > gotta read the pickaxe book or another ruby guide for more on what that > means: > > http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.