From: "Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@...>
Date: 2002-04-02T06:20:31+09:00
Subject: Dir[] on Windows w/ long filenames

Ruby 1.6.6

Dir[] doesn't appear to work if any directories have a space in their name:

irb(main):005:0> Dir['c:/temp/*.*']
["c:/temp/10175.094.out", "c:/temp/attach1_snelling.kmap.err[1].zip",
"c:/temp/i
xp001.tmp", "c:/temp/JET1.tmp", "c:/temp/JET2.tmp", "c:/temp/JET3.tmp",
"c:/temp
/JET4.tmp", "c:/temp/JET5.tmp", "c:/temp/JET6.tmp", "c:/temp/JET7.tmp",
"c:/temp
/JET8.tmp", "c:/temp/JETE.tmp", "c:/temp/JETF.tmp", "c:/temp/redist.log",
"c:/te
mp/setupsql.ini", "c:/temp/testunit-0.1.4[1].zip", "c:/temp/_ISTMP1.DIR"]

irb(main):010:0> Dir['c:/program files/UltraEdit/*.*']
[]

irb(main):009:0> Dir.entries('c:/program files/UltraEdit')
[".", "..", "aanew.txt", "AUTOCORR.TLX", "Chrismo.mac", "CONDCORR.TLX",
"Edit2",
 "FILE_ID.DIZ", "html.mac", "Html.tlx", "htmltidy.dll", "INSTALL.LOG",
"ORDER.TX
T", "READ.ME", "SSCE4332.DLL", "TAGLIST.NEW", "TAGLIST.OLD", "TAGLIST.TXT",
"tha
ng.txt", "UE32CTMN.DL", "ue32ctmn.dll", "UEDIFF.EXE", "UEDIT32.EXE",
"UEDIT32.GI
D", "UEDIT32.HLP", "UEDIT32.REG", "uedit32i.exe", "UEDOS32.EXE",
"UNINSTAL.EXE",
 "vbs.mac", "Wordfile.bak.txt", "WORDFILE.NEW", "WORDFILE.OLD",
"Wordfile.txt",
"WORDFILE2.TXT"]

Is this a bug?

Chris Morris
chris.morris@snelling.com