From: Rudolf Polzer <AntiATField_adsgohere@...>
Date: 2002-12-29T04:54:15+09:00
Subject: Re: block from string

Scripsit ille Robert <bob.news@gmx.net>:
> "Rudolf Polzer" <AntiATField_adsgohere@durchnull.de> schrieb:
[...]
> >   ((ARGV.length() == 0) ? Dir["..?* .[^.]* *"] : ARGV).each() do |_|
[...]
> > And - note the ugly glob pattern. Is there something cleaner for "take
> > everything from the current directory except . and .."?
> 
> how about using "next":
> 
>   ( ARGV.empty? ? Dir : ARGV ).each() do |_|
>     next if _ == "." || _ == ".."

Right, since it isn't useful or possible at all to rename '.' and '..'.

>     _2 = _.instance_eval( expr )
>     puts "%s => %s" % [_, _2]
>     File.rename(_, _2) unless File.exists?(_2)
>   end

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