From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-04-09T10:33:13+09:00
Subject: Re: need help with recursion

Hi --

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Boris "BXS" Schulz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was just trying to replace the underscores I get when using files from 
> my Linux-friends, but somehow my code seems to be corrupt.
> The code runs fine without the recursion, so it must be something wrong 
> in those three lines, but I do not know what :-(
> The "under_score.txt" is my testobject.
> I am using: Ruby 1.8.0, Windows XP
> Any help would be great.

I think it's because you're looking for a filename without the full
path.  At least, if under_score.txt is one level down, I think that's
what's happening.  You'd need to chdir to the new directory, which you
can do with Dir.chdir.

You can actually let the Find module handle this too:

  class FileHandling
    require 'find'
    def noRecursiveUnderscore(dir)
      Find.find(dir) do |f|
	File.rename(f, f.gsub("_", " ")) if File.stat(f).file?
      end
    end
  end


David

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