From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2006-10-14T10:55:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie - File Rename

Hi,

At Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:10:23 +0900,
Snoopy Dog wrote in [ruby-talk:219613]:
>    if File.file? path
>       puts path + ' is a file'
>       oldname = path
        newname = path.sub('longfilename - 0', '0')
>       puts  newname + ' Is the newfile'
>       puts "\n\nCheck About to RENAME file"
>       File.rename(oldname, newname)
>       puts 'Renamed ' + oldname + ' to ' + newname + "\n\n\n"
>     end

Assigning path to newpath doesn't create a new string, but
makes the latter to share the same string with the former and
oldname.

-- 
Nobu Nakada