From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-01-27T15:52:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Help on Directory Iteration

On 27.01.2009 07:32, Newb Newb wrote:
> Hi People i have never done file or  Directory manipulations before.
> now in my form i have given date field and search button.
> if the user enters date and clicks the search button,accoding to the
> date entered it has to search for the folder in the ChatHistory folder
> for example user enters date like 2009-01-23 means it has to search for
> the folder which named 2009-01-23.
> if the foder exists again it has to be iterated when i do this i get
> error.
> folder structure would be ChatHistory has one folder like  2009-01-23
> has two folder namely test and user these two folders contain 2  files
> each.
> My code starts here
> if params[:first_name].blank? and params[:second_name].blank? and
> !params[:e_date][0].blank? and params[:e_date][1].blank?
>   puts "frtst date is not blank others are blank"
>   Dir.foreach("ChatHistory") do |f|
>     if f == params[:e_date][0]
>        puts "there:"
>        Dir.foreach(f) do |p|

f does not contain the full path here so you need something like:

        Dir.foreach(File.join("ChatHistory",f)) do |p|

Btw, it's often helpful to put a few printing statements here and there 
during debugging. :-)

>        puts p
>        end
>     end
>   end

Kind regards

	robert

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