From: Peter Bailey Date: 2007-07-26T21:23:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Boolean question. File here but not there. John Joyce wrote: > On Jul 24, 2007, at 8:09 AM, Peter Bailey wrote: > >> Whew. Obviously, I must have something wrong with my Boolean >> Dir.chdir("L:/tiff/cdtiff/#{tifdir}") >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> > Try using two Dir.globs > one for an array of tiffs and one for an array of pdfs > then use Array#include? to compare one array's elements to the other > array by basename only. > create an array of matches or an array of non matches or both > use Array.collect to create the new array of pairs. > While you do that delete them from the previous arrays. > Output the 3 arrays and you have your pairs and non pairs. Thanks a lot. Yes, your suggestion in an intelligent one. My headspace expands every day with Ruby! Thanks again. -Peter -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.