From: Michael W Ryder <data@...>
Date: 2010-03-13T09:25:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.glob problem

David Vlad wrote:
> In the program Im making I need to read some wma files into a variable
> and I did like this:
> 
> songs = Dir.glob("C:\\Users\\Public\\Music\\Sample Music\\*.wma")
> 
> Note that this is NOT the wrong directory, I've copy pasted it from the
> map itself and also the files are wma and nothing else. My programming
> teacher has no idea why this dosnt work and the other ppl I've talked
> with dosnt know either. Most said something like "aside from a simple
> mistake like wrong directory/extension, I don't know what could be going
> wrong." So now this forum is my last resort, why on earth dosnt this
> work?!

The only way I could get it to work is to use the example at 
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Dir.html and create a directory 
variable such as: lfiles=Files.join("C:", "Users", "Public", "Music", 
"Sample Music", "*.wma") and then use a=Dir.glob(lfiles).
The only problem with that approach is that the entire path is added to 
each file.  I don't know if this is a concern or not.