From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2009-03-02T06:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Error when running script

Brad Winborg wrote:
> This is the script, it's intent is to read all Error logs.txt files in a
> directory or just the text files that are listed. Find all the lines
> that contain the word "error" and all the lines that contain the word
> "warning" display a count of each word. Additionally it should create
> report that tells how many times the two words appear every ten min, for
> the duration of the error logs.
> 
> my_path = "D:\My Documents\\Replicon\\log_file_20090221_041817.txt"
> 
> warning = 0
> error = 0
> 
> d = Dir.new(my_path)
> d.each do |fl|
>    unless fl == '.' or fl == '..' then
>  puts my_path + fl
>   File.open(my_path + fl, "r").each do |line|
>     if line =~ /error/ then
>       error += 1
>     elsif line =~ /warning/ then
>        warning += 1
>     end
>    end
> 
>   end
> end
> puts warning.to_s
> puts error.to_s
> 
> 
> Here is the errors I receive when I run it.
> 
> Not a directory - D:\My Documents\Replicon\log_file_20090221_041817.txt\
> D:/My Documents/Replicon/ErrorCount.rb:6:in `initialize'
> Press ENTER to close the window...
> 
> Directory Path
> D:\My Documents\Replicon
> I was going to add an attachment to show that the directory really exits
> and that the file is in that directory, but it was to large.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas as to why it is not working I be very grateful,
> as I am new to ruby code in general.

Look at the error message. You're asking Dir.new to open the directory 
"D:\My Documents\Replicon\log_file_20090221_041817.txt".
I think the directory name is actually "D:\My Documents\Replicon" and 
"log_file_20090221_041817.txt" is a file within that directory.

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