From: Yuri Klubakov <yuri.mlists@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T01:13:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Change in Dir.glob behavior on Windows between 1.8.5 and 1.8.6

On 7/18/07, Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@venyon.com> wrote:
> > 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']?

No, it's File:ALT_SEPARATOR (\):

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').gsub(File::ALT_SEPARATOR, File::SEPARATOR))
=> [C:/Documents and Settings/yura/putty.rnd"]
irb(main):002:0> Dir.glob(File.join(ENV['USERPROFILE'],
'*.rnd').gsub(File::SEPARATOR, File::ALT_SEPARATOR))
=> []

-- 
yura.