"Joseph McDonald" <joe / vpop.net> wrote: > > >It looks like ranges can't "jump" from uppercase to lowercase. >So it gets all the way to Z and hits the brick wall. >perl has the same "feature": >for("A".."k") { > print "$_ "; >} >=> A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z > I would assume that is because both Perl and Ruby use the same string incrementing algorithm. See http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_string.html#succ Cheers, Ben _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com