From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-09T14:18:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6951] Re: Dir.sort(somedir) ?

Dave Brondsema <brondsem@my-deja.com> writes:

>   Dir.foreach(thisdir) {
>     |filename|
>     # do stuff with filename
>   }
> 
> How can I change this so that it iterates through the alphabetically
> sorted directory?

You could try something like

   Dir.new(thisdir).sort.each do |file|
      .,,
   end

While Dir.foreach is a class method, Dir.new creates a new directory
object. Directory objects have all the Enumerable methods, so sort is
available.


Regards

Dave