On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Robert Klemme wrote: > I'd use #select with inverted condition or #reject > > irb(main):005:0> a.select {|s| /0/ !~ s} That worked perfectly, thank you. A a sysadmin, I use "grep -v" quite a bit and I was hoping that the grep method in Ruby had a similar capability. Using select is a bit wordier and not quite as apparent as to what is going on, but it works very well. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use.