From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-07-25T15:03:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding files in a directory and regexp

Alexander Lamb wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am doing something like this:
> 
>     Find.find("/Users/alamb/_Current-Work/fiches") do |path|
>       if(path =~ /100_/)
>         ...
> 
> In order to get all the files of the directory which have "100_" in  the 
> name.
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1) Is there a way to use the find method to directly achieve this?
> 2) I tried a Regexp with /^100_/ to say "files starting with '100_'   " 
> but it doensn't seem to work.

I don't usually use Find... Dir is fairly powerful.

   Dir["100*"]     # all 100-type files in current dir
   Dir["**/100*"]  # all in this tree (correct syntax??)


Hal