From: Mark Bush <mark@...>
Date: 2008-03-14T18:02:07+09:00
Subject: Re: check if file exists for part of the filename

Christian Kerth wrote:
> I only want to know if a file exists, that starts with "file_"

Dir.entries('.').detect {|f| f.match /^file_/}

Replace '.' with the name of the directory to check if it is not the 
current directory.  Will return the name of the first file to match if 
there is one, else will return nil.

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