From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-10-22T12:25:11+09:00
Subject: Re: What is wrong with my code

Li Chen wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I write two srcipts to check  files in a given directory. Version 1 uses
> regular expression  and works but I cann't find the size for each file.
> Version 2 uses Ruby built-in File.file? method but it doesn't work at
> all.

Explain. What error messages did you see? You need to provide more
information.

> I wonder what is going on with my scripts? 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Li
> 
> #######Version 1:
> 
> path='c:\path\to\folder'

Don't use backslashes like this. Use forward slashes to avoid problems in
interpretation. Ruby will know what to do.

> Dir.open(path).each   do |file|
>          if file=~/(\w+|d+).(\d{3,})/
>                puts file
>                puts File.size(file)# this line doesn't work

"Doesn't work"? Please tell us what error message you saw. Maybe the "file"
was a directory?

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Paul Lutus
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