Chris Morris wrote: > > > is there a preferred method to accomplish this : > > > > require 'module_name', '1.0.1' > > This has been discussed here before, and, AFAIK, no consensus emerged. It's > been a while, maybe your post will renew the thread :) > > Chris > http://clabs.org Are you thinking along the lines of Brian Ingerson's "only" Perl module? http://search.cpan.org/author/INGY/only-0.25/ I think it would be cool to have something like this. As it stands now I think you just have to check the VERSION manually, assuming there is one. Regards, Dan -- a = [74, 117, 115, 116, 32, 65, 110, 111, 116, 104, 101, 114, 32, 82] a.push(117,98, 121, 32, 72, 97, 99, 107, 101, 114) puts a.pack("C*")