From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-07-03T21:19:12+09:00
Subject: Re: if problem in loop causing weirdness

On 7/3/06, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com> wrote:
> Having an issue here, specifically (5 lines down) puts x + ' already
> exists'.  It spits out the same number of times that the array loops
> are reiterating.  Here is my concept, both arrays are looping [0]
> element to [0] element.  When File.exist returns true it should ask
> user "once" for a yes or no, if no then it deletes it from the
> pics2bmoved array.  However as I introduced above, it is asking x
> number of times , with x being the number of elements in the array.
> Sorry for asking yet another noob question, but the books and
> reference didn't turn up anything specific to this situation.
>
>
>  destdir = Dir['C:/testfilesmoved/*.*']
>      destdir.each do |name|
>           pics2bmoved.each do |x|
>
>      if File.exist?(name) && File.compare(x, name)
>           puts x + ' already exists'
>           puts 'Do you want to overwrite? "yes" or "no"?'
>                    ow = gets.chomp.downcase
>
>                    if ow == 'no'
>                    pics2bmoved.delete(x)
>
>       end # for if ow statement
>     end # for if statement
>   end # end for pics2bmoved loop
> end # end for destdir loop
>
> puts
> if pics2bmoved.empty?
> puts 'There are no files to be moved'
> else
> puts 'The following files will be moved'
> puts pics2bmoved
> end # for pic2bmoved list
>
>