Hi, I read a little bit in the manual. I think I have found a sentence, that seems not to be correct. The sentence is: Ruby Syntax --> String Literals ... If the delimiter is an opening bracket or parenthesis, the final delimiter will be the corresponding closing bracket or parenthesis. (Embedded occurrences of the closing bracket need to be backslashed as usual.) I think it should be mentioned, that the brackets and parenthesis nest! That means following would work, althought I think it should not, after reading the sentence above: s = %(Hello (world)! Ruby is cool!\n) print s Would print `Hello (world)! Ruby is cool!'. *With* the parenthesis contained in the string *without* escaping!!! :-)))) \cle