From: Matthew Margolis <mrmargolis@...>
Date: 2004-08-05T10:23:16+09:00
Subject: Re: open files in other directories

Mehr, Assaph (Assaph) wrote:

>The permission is on 'text/.' which is 'text' itself.
>
>Try:
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>>campershash = Hash.new
>>Dir.entries("text").each do |textfilename|
>>    
>>
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>Probably better expressed as Dir.glob('text/*') or Dir['text/*']. This
>also ignores the "." and ".." files.
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>>   campershash["#{textfilename.chop.chop.chop.chop}"] = 
>>    
>>
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>Try textfilename[0..-5] for a fixed size slice.
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>>     File.open("text/" + "#{textfilename}") { |f| f.gets(nil) } 
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>	 File.open(textfilename) if you've used glob, which preserves
>the path info.
>
>To concatenate strings use: 
>	"text/" + textfilename.to_s
>Or better yet:
>	"text/#{textfilename}"
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>>end
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Thank you very much.  As a ruby noob I am still learning the built in 
methods.  I didn't even think to use glob.
-Matt Margolis