From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2004-03-11T09:22:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir::glob with a block

Ara.T.Howard [mailto:ahoward@fattire.ngdc.noaa.gov] replied:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>  Dir::glob
> >      Dir.glob( string, [flags] ) => array
> >      Dir.glob( string, [flags] ) {| filename | block }  => false
> > 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> > 
> > My observation is that it would be much more useful if the 
> block form 
> > also returned an array, consisting of each filename modified by the 
> > block. I ran into this today and found I had to use the 
> non-block form 
> > with Array#collect.
> > 
> > Is there a good reason for this method being the way it is?
> 
> running on a directory with 100,000 files - which we do alot. 
>  the construction of array would balloon your process size...

but what is Dir#each ?

> -a

kind regards -botp