From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2001-05-30T00:11:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15935] Re: Dir[]

I agree that this would be more intuitive and would also take care of the
white spaces nicely.
Benoit
"Mike" <mike@lepton.fr> wrote in message
news:20010529123531.094a77c8.mike@lepton.fr...
> On Tue, 29 May 2001 14:42:52 +0900
> matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:
>
> > Hmm, ruby 1.7 allows you to escape space by \.
> >
> >  files = Dir["C:/dir\\ dir1/next dir2/*"]
> >
>
> Why should spaces be escaped? Why would a space be a delimiter in this
method?
>
> It appears that you can use multiple patterns in this method (call Dir["/*
/home/*"] and obtain the files in / and /home), but there's nothing about
that in the documentation and I don't think it's usefull.
> I would prefer to call Dir["/*", "/home/*"] and be able to use spaces
without any conversion.
>
> Mike.