From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T17:30:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Change in Dir.glob behavior on Windows between 1.8.5 and 1.8.6

> I've checked ruby-talk emails regarding Dir.glob and File.join but
> didn't see this one reported before.
> 
> C:\> ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-mswin32]
> 
> C:\> irb
> irb(main):001:0> Dir.glob(File.join(ENV['USERPROFILE'], '*.rnd'))
> => [C:\\Documents and Settings\\yura/putty.rnd"]
> 
> C:\> ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32]
> 
> C:\> irb
> irb(main):001:0> Dir.glob(File.join(ENV['USERPROFILE'], '*.rnd'))
> => []

I could reproduce this on my system too.

Could it be that 1.8.6 Dir.glob gets upset on the spaces in
ENV['USERPROFILE']?

Ronald
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