From: Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@...>
Date: 2000-12-09T18:10:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6959] Re: Dir.sort(somedir) ?

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

    Dave> I just started experimenting with Ruby tonight and have
    Dave> written a decent sized program in just a few hours.

Congratulations :-)

(...)

    Dave>   Dir.foreach(thisdir) { 
    Dave>     |filename| # do stuff with filename
    Dave>   }

    Dave> How can I change this so that it iterates through the
    Dave> alphabetically sorted directory?

    Dave> If I could get the directory into an array, I think I could
    Dave> sort it using arrayname.sort and then iterate through it.
    Dave> However, I don't even know how to do that.

No problem, try this:

  filelist = Array.new
  Dir.foreach(thisdir, &filelist.method(:push))
  filelist.sort.each do |filename|
    # do stuff with filename
  end


    Dave> Thanks in advance,

You're welcome and much fun with Ruby ... :-)


    Dave> -- Dave Brondsema

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