From: rio4ruby <Christopher.Kleckner@...>
Date: 2007-09-05T07:05:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does File.exists? not support regexp? It would be very handfull?

On Sep 4, 8:43 am, kazaam <kaz...@oleco.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> if I wanna check if a file exists like fglrx.i386.8.40.3.ko why is File.exists? not able to handle regexp to check this like:
>
> system('rm fglrx*') if File.exists?(/^fglrx.+/)
>
> --> ./test.rb:4:in `exists?': can't convert Regexp into String (TypeError)
>
> --
> kazaam <kaz...@oleco.net>

I agree that file matching via regular expressions is very convenient
in certain situations that are not handled by globs. You might want to
look at Rio (http://rio.rubyforge.org).