From: Matthew Margolis <mrmargolis@...>
Date: 2004-08-05T10:44:18+09:00
Subject: Re: open files in other directories

Mehr, Assaph (Assaph) wrote:

>>Thank you very much.  As a ruby noob I am still learning the built in
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>methods.
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>>I didn't even think to use glob.
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>No worries - that's what this list is for :)
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>It just hit me:
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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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>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)
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Excellent.  The multiple chops were a quick hack I threw together for 
testing purposes. I was going to go searching for a better way to 
actually remove the extension in a bit but I guess I don't have to do 
that now.

Thank you for saving me some time,
Matthew Margolis