From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2006-11-24T23:57:04+09:00
Subject: Re: A directory "grep" in RUBY?

WATANABE Hirofumi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com> writes:
> 
>> I need something like this, even though, I know this doesn't work:
>> Dir.glob(/^f[0-9]{7}\.eps/)
> 
> % ls
> etc1  f1234500.eps  f1234502.eps  f1234504.eps  f1234567.eps
> etc2  f1234501.eps  f1234503.eps  f1234505.eps
> % ruby -e 'puts Dir.entries(".").grep(/f\d{7}\.eps/)'
> f1234567.eps
> f1234500.eps
> f1234503.eps
> f1234502.eps
> f1234504.eps
> f1234501.eps
> f1234505.eps

Thank you! I've never seen "Dir.entries" before. Very cool.

I love this forum!

-Peter

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