From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@...>
Date: 2004-08-05T10:29:19+09:00
Subject: Re: open files in other directories


> Thank you very much.  As a ruby noob I am still learning the built in
methods.
> I didn't even think to use glob.

No worries - that's what this list is for :)

It just hit me:
>>   campershash["#{textfilename.chop.chop.chop.chop}"] =
>Try textfilename[0..-5] for a fixed size slice.

You're probably trying to remove the extension. Take a look at File
class methods: basename, extname, dirname etc. You can strip extension
by:
	base_name = textfilename.delete File.extname(textfilename)