From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-09-23T18:40:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.foreach not with patterns?

>>>>> "A" == Alan Davies <NOSPAMcs96and@yahoo.co.ukNOSPAM> writes:

A> I'm pretty sure you can't have filenames with \n in them, and that 
A> pattern wouldn't match them anyway.

 Then test it with a real OS :-)

svg% ls -a
./  ../
svg% 

svg% ruby -e 'Dir.mkdir "aa\n.."'
svg% 

svg% ls -a
./  ../  aa?../
svg% 

svg% ruby -e 'Dir.foreach(".") {|d| p d}'
"."
".."
"aa\n.."
svg% 

svg% ruby -e 'Dir.foreach(".") {|d| next if d =~ /^\.\.?$/; p d}'
svg% 



Guy Decoux