# Pickaxe doesn't appear to have anything on "x =3D \[\]", ...?

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**Created:** [May 29, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pickaxe-doesnt-appear-to-have-anything-on-x-3d/61938 "2006-05-29T23:44:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Xeno_C)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pickaxe-doesnt-appear-to-have-anything-on-x-3d/61938/1 "2006-05-29T23:44:03Z")

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I just ran into this, and I’d like to see something that says what it  
is. Is  
there a topic name for it?

xc

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**Author:** ![Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Xeno_C)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pickaxe-doesnt-appear-to-have-anything-on-x-3d/61938/2 "2006-05-30T00:03:50Z")

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On May 29, 2006, at 11:41 PM, Xeno C. wrote:

> I just ran into this, and I’d like to see something that says what  
> it is. Is  
> there a topic name for it?

Your post is a little cryptic, but I think you are asking about why  
some messages in the ruby-talk archives have “=3D” in some places. It  
is because those postings are in multi-part [MIME](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME) format using  
Quoted-Printable encoding. For an example, see [http://  
blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/154392] or  
[google](http://www.google.com/search?&q=%3D3D+site%25).

3Ablade.nagaokaut.ac.jp&btnG=Search

– Daniel