From: Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@...>
Date: 2008-12-16T04:12:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Walk through directory structure, look at first file, rename dir in consequence.

Einar Magn�s Boson wrote:
> On 15.12.2008, at 16:17 , Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
>
>   
>> This is pretty ugly and doesn't work.. Can't figure out why, but it  
>> doesn't actually go through the main loop more than once. I'm a  
>> little stuck here.. Any help is welcome :)
>>
>> def keep_iterating_until_not_directory()
>> Dir.glob('*') do |filename|
>>   if File.directory?(filename)
>>     Dir.chdir(filename)
>>     keep_iterating_until_not_directory()
>>   end
>>   break
>> end
>> end
>>
>> def come_back_to_nycom
>> Dir.chdir("..") while Dir.pwd != "C:/Documents and Settings/username/ 
>> My Documents/NYCOM"
>> end
>>
>> Dir.glob('*') do |filename|
>> if File.directory?(filename)
>>   keep_iterating_until_not_directory()
>> end
>> puts Dir.pwd
>> image = DICOM::DObject.new(Dir.glob('*')[0], verbose=false,  
>> library=lib)
>> come_back_to_nycom()
>> if image.get_raw("0008,1090") == "HDI 5000"
>>   File.rename(filename, "HDI5000" + filename)
>> end
>> end
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
> something I wrote a while back that works:
>
> def getFilesInDirectory(dir)
>    Dir[File.join(dir, "*")].collect do |f|
>      if File.directory?(f) then
>        getFilesInDirectory(f)
>      else
>        f
>      end
>    end.flatten
> end
>
> then you can use it like:
> getFilesInDirectory(Dir.pwd).each do |f|
> 	puts f
> end
>
> einarmagnus
>
>
>
>
>   
I think I see what this does.. It's pretty neat. How would I use this to 
only parse the first file of any given directory? I can't quite picture 
this.

--Aldric