From: Morton Goldberg Date: 2006-08-04T08:05:29+09:00 Subject: Re: Dir.glob finding folders Retract. I didn't read this carefully enough. {CFI-} has no # in front of it. Regards, Morton On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Morton Goldberg wrote: > Shouldn't it be > > Dir.glob("#{drive_letter}:\\**\\CFI-*") > > ?? I mean, CFI- isn't a variable. > > Regards, Morton > > On Aug 3, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Geoff wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> I've been messing with this for hours now and I really thought this >> would work! I want to prompt to get the letter of the drive to >> search, >> then if the directory has the text "CFI-" in it, add that full >> path as >> a line to a text file. >> >> file = File.open("projects.txt", "w") >> print "Enter Drive Letter: " >> drive_letter = gets.chomp >> Dir.glob("#{drive_letter}:\\**\\{CFI-}*") do |f| >> file << "#{f} \n" >> end >> >> Why is this not working? > >