From: Wayne Blair <wayne.blair@...>
Date: 2001-05-29T17:10:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15913] Re: Dir[]

matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Hi,
>
> In message "[ruby-talk:15894] Dir[]"
>     on 01/05/29, "Todd Smith" <todd@designsouth.net> writes:
>
> |I can get a list of files to be returned from a line such as:
> |
> |files = Dir["C:/dir1/dir2/*"]
> |
> |but this won't work:
> |
> |files = Dir["C:/dir dir1/next dir2/*"]
> |
> |How do I deal with paths that have spaces in them?
>
> Hmm, ruby 1.7 allows you to escape space by \.
>
>  files = Dir["C:/dir\\ dir1/next dir2/*"]
>
> Should I backport it?  But allowing backslash escaping may bother
> path separator on Windows platforms (that's why I didn't port it).
>
>        matz.

Have you considered only allowing the backslash escaping in charsets, or
allowing space in charset?

Wayne