From: Yuri Klubakov <yuri.mlists@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T07:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Change in Dir.glob behavior on Windows between 1.8.5 and 1.8.6

On 7/18/07, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> At Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:30:17 +0900,
> Ronald Fischer wrote in [ruby-talk:260407]:
> > Could it be that 1.8.6 Dir.glob gets upset on the spaces in
> > ENV['USERPROFILE']?
>
> No, backslash is a special character.

So, is it a "fix" or a "bug"?

What is now a portable way to do the following (does not work on
Windows any more):

Dir.glob(File.join(ENV['HOME'], '*.dat'))

-- 
yura