From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2000-03-09T15:24:20+01:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01792] Re: size of Dir stream

>>>>> "D" == Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

D> The class method Dir.open returns a Dir object, which (unless things
D> have changed in 1.5) does not respond to 'size'.  Possibly you wanted

 Yes, this is changed in 1.5 (see enum.c)

pigeon% cat b.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
path = '/usr/bin'
files = Dir.open(path)
print "files.size is #{files.size} files.size is #{files.size}\n"
pigeon% b.rb
files.size is 1484 files.size is 0
pigeon% 

 1.4.3


Guy Decoux