From: Newbie <none@...>
Date: 2006-09-21T18:10:23+09:00
Subject: How to Traverse a Directory

def traverse(root)
   Dir.foreach(root) do |file|
     next if file[0] == ?.
     puts file
     traverse(root + '\\' + file) if File.directory?(root + '\\' + file)
   end
end

This is my initial attempt. Two things feel rather wrong:
1) Is there a simpler way to test the beginning of a string? A startsWith?(aString) like method?
2) I'm iterating through filenames, then appending the path each time. Is there a way to get a 
collection of File objects from a directory?

Any other pointers to where I could improve would also be greatly appreciated.

(I tried posting this twice through Teranews, but it doesn't seem to have got through.)