From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-17T01:43:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Test if Directory is Empty

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:19:30 +0900,
> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote in [ruby-talk:220018]:
>> which someone will probably compact... note that it returns false when the
>> first file/dotfile is found.
>
>  !Dir.foreach(dirname) {|n| break true unless /\A\.\.?\z/ =~ n}
>  !Dir.enum_for(:foreach, dirname).any? {|n| /\A\.\.?\z/ !~ n}

nice.  double negation is always good!

-a
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