From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-04-02T08:50:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir[] on Windows w/ long filenames

Hi,

At Tue, 2 Apr 2002 06:20:31 +0900,
Morris, Chris <chris.morris@snelling.com> wrote:
> Ruby 1.6.6
> 
> Dir[] doesn't appear to work if any directories have a space in their name:

A space is a separator of globbing patterns in 1.6 or former.

$ touch a b 'a b'
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 nobu     nakada          0 Apr  2 08:43 a
-rw-r--r--    1 nobu     nakada          0 Apr  2 08:43 a b
-rw-r--r--    1 nobu     nakada          0 Apr  2 08:43 b
$ ruby14-linux -ve 'p Dir["a b"]'
ruby 1.4.6 (2000-08-16) [i686-linux]
["a", "b"]
$ ruby16-linux -ve 'p Dir["a b"]'
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-04-01) [i686-linux]
["a", "b"]
$ ruby17-linux -ve 'p Dir["a b"]'

The behavior has been changed in 1.7.

ruby 1.7.2 (2002-04-01) [i686-linux]
["a b"]

-- 
Nobu Nakada