From: Yohanes Santoso <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2002-06-12T14:47:38+09:00
Subject: Re: How to read files from a directory foreach?

Kurt Euler <keuler@portal.com> writes:

> All-
> 
> Is there a way to use some type of foreach loop to read in each text
> file in a directory, each pass returning a file name and its
> contents in two separate strings, until all files have been read?

How about a 3-liner?

hash={}
Dir.entries(".").each{ |file| File.open(file) {|fh| hash[file] = fh.readlines.to_s} if File.stat(file).file? }  
array=hash.to_a # => array[0][0] = filename, array[0][1] = content

> I believe there is a command that reads all file names in a
> directory into an array. However, I'd rather see if there's a quick
> and dirty way to step through each file without creating (and then
> working with) such array.

See above.

YS.