From: Li Chen Date: 2006-10-21T04:07:28+09:00 Subject: how to calculate file number in a folder Hi folks, I write a script to find out all the file names and the number of files in a folder(no other children folder) as following: Dir.open('C:/Ruby/self').each{ |file| puts file if file=~/(\w+)|(\d+)/ # remove file . and .. } but I am not sure how to calculate the number of file in folder. Any help will be appreciated. Li -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.