From: Geoff <samekh@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T08:10:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.glob finding folders

Yep, your right. However I changed that and ran it, but it still comes
up with an empty text file (even though there are quite a few
directories that contain "CFI-").

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?