Thx! Perl's $" just like OFS in awk which is the output field separator,i.e. that is printed between fields. -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera / math.umd.edu] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:18 PM To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org Subject: Re: Newbie question:Does Ruby have the structure of hash's array like Perl does? > Something like below doesn't work: > h=Hash.new > h["a"][0]="something" > h["a"][1]="another thing" h=Hash.new h["a"] = Array.new h["a"][0]="something" h["a"][1]="another thing" Ruby doesn't quite have Perl's "implicit declaration". > and what's the equivalence of Perl's $"? What does Perl's $" have? -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- depone: depone (di-POHN) verb tr., intr. To declare under oath.