From: Marcin Tyman Date: 2007-07-26T20:07:32+09:00 Subject: Re: List of directory. Robert Klemme wrote: > 2007/7/26, Marcin Tyman : >> >> a20 > Apparently you want to _sort by_ the numeric part. You can extract it > with a regular expression like this: > > irb(main):017:0> a.sort_by {|x| x[/\d+/].to_i } > => ["a1", "a2", "a10", "a20"] > > Kind regards > > robert I've done it as follows: arrOfFiles.sort! do |file1, file2| f1 = file1.slice(/\d+.sql/) f1 = f1.slice(/\d+/) f2 = file2.slice(/\d+.sql/) f2 = f2.slice(/\d+/) f1.to_i <=> f2.to_i end Thanks Robert -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.