From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-11-13T23:23:00+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I exit from a block

2007/11/13, Jigar Gosar <jigar.gosar@gmail.com>:
> base_dir = "C:/pde"
>
> def list base_dir
>   d= Dir.new base_dir
>   d.each  {|x|
>     return "asd" if x.eql? "."
>     return "asd" if x.eql? ".."
>     puts "Got #{x}"
>     full_name = base_dir+"/"+x
>     if(File.directory?(full_name))
>       list full_name
>     end
>   }
> end
>
> puts ( list base_dir)

Why do you use "puts" here?  As far as I can see you do the printing in #list.

> The return inside the block in the "list" method actually return from
> the "list" method itself. But i just wanted to exit the block. how does
> one exit from a block in ruby?
>
> please advise.

Not exactly the answer you were looking for, but...

15:21:46 /$ ruby -r find -e 'Find.find("/tmp") {|f| puts f}'
/tmp
/tmp/uscreens
/tmp/uscreens/S-rklemme
/tmp/4052
/tmp/4052/sshlog
/tmp/4052/servicelog
/tmp/4052/runlog
/tmp/4052/keylog
/tmp/.X11-unix
/tmp/.X11-unix/X0

Cheers

robert

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