From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2007-08-13T11:39:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Removing file names with '.' in their names from list?

On Aug 12, 4:16 pm, Sfdesigner Sfdesigner
<dan...@seniorartdirector.com> wrote:
> Currently I'm using this code to output a list of files to a .rhtml
> page:
>
> <%
> Dir.foreach("/") do |file|
>   next if File.fnmatch('*.*', file)
>   puts '<a href="file">' + file + '</a>'
> end
> %>
>
> This removes files from the list output such as 'photo.jpg'.
>
> But it leaves the files with names like '.htaccess', ',' and '..'.
>
> I could create more of the 'next' statements explicitly for those file
> and directory names but wondering if there's a more elegant way to say
> don't output files with a '.' in their names.
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

perhaps:
  next if file.include?('.')

Though Robert's solution does the same thing.

HTH,
Chris