From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-03-17T03:27:35+09:00
Subject: Re: handling many files inside dir

On 16.03.2009 15:22, Bary Buz wrote:
> im trying to process a directory that contains many text files. I want
> to read each file, store the text inside file and then move to the next
> file. I used the following code but at the end i get an error about
> Permission Denied. Can someone tell me what im doing wrong.

Where do you get that error?  Can you provide the stacktrace and 
indicate where that is in the script?

> #get list of files
> 
> basedir = "C:/rubyfolder"
> Dir.chdir(basedir)
> Dir.open(basedir) do |dir|

This won't work as soon as basedir is a relative path!

>   dir.each do |file|
>   x = file
>   myfile = File.open(x, "r")
>   x.close
>   dataclass = Manipulate.new(myfile)
>  end
> end
> 
> thanks in advance

See also lasitha's excellent remarks.

Cheers

	robert