From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T16:20:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Add files to array matching pattern

2007/10/5, Leon Bogaert <leon@tim-online.nl>:
> This would work:
>
> i = 0; dir = "/home/leon/"; test = Array.new; test =
> Dir.new(dir).entries.map! { |x| x =~ /filezilla$/ ? x : next  };
> test.compact
>
> Is the .compact needed? Can't I get rid of that?

You need it with your code because the map! will map some values to
nil.  You probably rather want #select.

files = Dir.new(dir).entries.select  { |x|  /filezilla$/ =~ x }

But you can have that much easier with

files = Dir["/home/leon/*filezilla"]

Kind regards

robert