From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-05-14T11:27:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in backslash-escapes in Dir.glob

Hi,

At Wed, 14 May 2003 10:59:18 +0900,
Clifford Heath wrote:
> p Dir.glob("#{testdir.gsub(/ /, '?')}/*\ *")

The last backslash has no meanings at all.  Just a literal
space.

> $ ruby globtest.rb 'glob test'
> ["glob test/file 1", "glob test/file 2", "globtest.rb", "glob test"]

In 1.6, spaces are separators of patterns, so you are globbing
"glob?test/*" and "*" here.

-- 
Nobu Nakada