Help on Directory Iteration

Hi People i have never done file or Directory manipulations before.
now in my form i have given date field and search button.
if the user enters date and clicks the search button,accoding to the
date entered it has to search for the folder in the ChatHistory folder
for example user enters date like 2009-01-23 means it has to search for
the folder which named 2009-01-23.
if the foder exists again it has to be iterated when i do this i get
error.
folder structure would be ChatHistory has one folder like 2009-01-23
has two folder namely test and user these two folders contain 2 files
each.
My code starts here
if params[:first_name].blank? and params[:second_name].blank? and
!params[:e_date][0].blank? and params[:e_date][1].blank?
puts “frtst date is not blank others are blank”
Dir.foreach(“ChatHistory”) do |f|
if f == params[:e_date][0]
puts “there:”
Dir.foreach(f) do |p|
puts p
end
end
end

Pls Kindly help me up

On 27.01.2009 07:32, Newb N. wrote:

each.
My code starts here
if params[:first_name].blank? and params[:second_name].blank? and
!params[:e_date][0].blank? and params[:e_date][1].blank?
puts “frtst date is not blank others are blank”
Dir.foreach(“ChatHistory”) do |f|
if f == params[:e_date][0]
puts “there:”
Dir.foreach(f) do |p|

f does not contain the full path here so you need something like:

    Dir.foreach(File.join("ChatHistory",f)) do |p|

Btw, it’s often helpful to put a few printing statements here and there
during debugging. :slight_smile:

   puts p
   end
end

end

Kind regards

robert

Thanks for the timely reply

From: Newb N. [mailto:[email protected]]

Dir.foreach(“ChatHistory”) do |f|

if f == params[:e_date][0]

puts “there:”

Dir.foreach(f) do |p|

puts p

end

end

end

hmm, folder/filnames are uniq for each level, so you should *not need to
iterate that no? that is,

Dir.foreach(‘ChatHistory/’+params[:e_date][0]) do |path|
puts path unless %w(. …).include? path
end

and i would also refrain using p as a var name :wink:

Newb N. wrote:

Thanks for the timely reply

v

Newb N. wrote:

folder structure would be ChatHistory has one folder like 2009-01-23
has two folder namely test and user these two folders contain 2 files
each.

You can get a list of all files and subdirectories under a subdirectory
like this:

Dir[“ChatHistory/2009-01-23/**/*”]

Note: if you are inserting a value from a parameter, you should sanitise
it first. At least remove /…/, although it’s safest to allow only valid
values like this:

date = params[:date]
raise “Bad date format” unless date =~ /\A\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d\z/
Dir[“ChatHistory/#{date}/**/*”].each do |f|

end

if params[:first_name].blank? and params[:second_name].blank? and
!params[:e_date][0].blank? and params[:e_date][1].blank?
puts “frtst date is not blank others are blank”
Dir.foreach(“ChatHistory”) do |folder_name|
if folder_name == params[:e_date][0]
puts “there:”
puts folder_name
@sub_folder_one = Array.new
Dir.foreach(File.join(“ChatHistory”,folder_name)) do
|sub_folder_name|
@sub_folder_one << sub_folder_name
end
end
end
end
@sub_folder_one array has two folder names
one is =>
[email protected][email protected]
second is => testing
14;23;[email protected]
in this i don’t need the folder name which has date in
that.
that i don’t need testing
14;23;[email protected]
but i need
[email protected][email protected]
how can i do that help me up pls

On 27.01.2009 10:47, Newb N. wrote:

Newb N. wrote:

Thanks for the timely reply

v

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