From: Fred Phillips <fophillips@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T09:59:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with accessing directory defined in ENV variables

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On Tue Aug 12 08:06:45 2008, Thomas Luedeke wrote:
> Fred Phillips wrote:
> > On Tue Aug 12 06:46:26 2008, Thomas Luedeke wrote:
> >> However, if I try to change to that directory with a command such as
> >> Dir.chdir(" #{ENV['TMPDIR']} " ), I always get errors like this:
> >=20
> > You don=E2=80=99t need the quotes, you can just do:
> >=20
> >     Dir.chdir(ENV['TMPDIR'])
>=20
> Whew - that did it.  Thanks so much - that is a serious load off my=20
> back.
>=20
> Just for my newbie education, what was going wrong with what I was=20
> doing?  What was Ruby thinking I was asking for??

Your first example would expand to " /TEMP2002/t3905 " not
"/TEMP2002/t3905" like you wanted. I think in your second example you
still had the space immediately after the " (" #{ENV['TMPDIR']}")

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Fred O. Phillips
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