From: drew <drew.robinson@...>
Date: 2005-10-28T12:02:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie help: File searching and writing output to new file

OK - William, you were right - the Dir[*.log].each statement only
returns a list of file names, not file handles, so I (and Daniel) was
simply searching the filenames, which of course wasn't returning any
results.

So I tried William's command-line versions, and they work, but I would
still like to know how to do the equivalent in a script. How do you
convert a list of filenames into actual file handles so you can open
them ? I guess I'll go and have a look in the Ruby docs.

So thanks William, your solutions worked; and Daniel, you made some
good suggestions (i.e. I was doing the wrong thing by zeroing the file
every time I opened a new input file, and it was nicer to write
directly to the file rather than into an array first), but you were
caught by the same assumption as I made - that Dir.each gives you
openable file handles, not just a directory listing !

Thanks guys,
Drew