From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2009-04-22T03:46:51+09:00
Subject: Re: directory watcher, trying to match filename to directory name.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Brian Wallace <draygen80@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do realize this :) , but if I could at least assume that "STRING" without
> the .??? is a directory, it would suffice ... Since the application will run
> in Windows there's less of a chance that a file called "STRING" would be
> placed into the list.
>
> So a RegEx that matches anything up to the '.' file extension and excludes
> '.' and '..' would be enough
>

No regular expression required ...

Dir.glob('/root/directory/*').each do |fn|
  next unless test(?d, fn)
  # your code goes here
end


The "test(?d, fn)" returns true if the current filename is a directory
and false otherwise.

Blessings,
TwP