From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-05-03T22:30:20+09:00
Subject: Re: FileTest::exists? Not Finding Windows Files with Spaces in Name

"Dennis Mendelson" <nobody@home.org> asserted:
> Should have mentioned that I have tried using double-quotes in the
> following ways:
>
> "C:\Documents and Settings\test.txt"; and
>
> C:\"Documents and Settings"\test.txt, both of which Windows
> recognises.

Have you tried with no quotes within the String, like Daniel's example?

FWIW This works for me under WinXP/Cygwin:

Dave@telperion ~
$ ruby -ve "puts File.exists?('My Documents')"
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
true

Cheers,
Dave