From: Dave Brondsema <brondsem@...>
Date: 2000-12-10T03:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6976] Re: Dir.sort(somedir) ?

In article <3A31BA04.317C0AC8@groupdigital.com>,
  Keith Weinberg <keith@groupdigital.com> wrote:
> try
>
> Dir.entries("thisdir").sort.each do |filename|
> 	# get down 'n dirty
> end
>
> The Dir.entries("dirname") gives you an array of filenames, which can
be
> sorted
> and then acted on individually.

Just what I needed.  Thanks.

>
> /<
>
> Dave Brondsema wrote:
> >
> > I just started experimenting with Ruby tonight and have written a
> > decent sized program in just a few hours.
> >
> > I have a question though.  I currently do a loop through all the
files
> > in a directory using the following (I like Ruby's iterators, btw):
> >
> >   Dir.foreach(thisdir) {
> >     |filename|
> >     # do stuff with filename
> >   }
> >
> > How can I change this so that it iterates through the alphabetically
> > sorted directory?
> >
> > If I could get the directory into an array, I think I could sort it
> > using arrayname.sort and then iterate through it.  However, I don't
> > even know how to do that.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > --
> > Dave Brondsema
> >
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>

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