From: eggie5 <eggie5@...>
Date: 2007-09-06T06:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: simple get file by filename

On Sep 5, 2:00 pm, "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/5/07, eggie5 <egg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Consider this:
>
> > I have a list of files that I get by calling:
>
> >  Dir.entries("/")
>
> > I just want to search this list and match the file name that matches
> > 1_1.* ( i.e. the filename without the extension)
>
> > So, for example, If the pattern to match against the list was
> > "jpg_image." it should return the filename "jpg_image.jpg" (assuming
> > the file exists).
>
> > What's the most succinct way to do this in ruby?
>
> Dir["/jpg_image.*"]

Confirmed.