Finding files in a directory and regexp

Ruby
1

Hello,

I am doing something like this:

Find.find("/Users/alamb/_Current-Work/fiches") do |path|
  if(path =~ /100_/)
	...

In order to get all the files of the directory which have “100_” in
the name.

Two questions:

  1. Is there a way to use the find method to directly achieve this?
  2. I tried a Regexp with /^100_/ to say "files starting with ‘100_’
    " but it doensn’t seem to work.

Any idea?

Thanks

Alexander L.
Service d’Informatique Médicale
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
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2

Alexander L. wrote:

Two questions:

  1. Is there a way to use the find method to directly achieve this?
  2. I tried a Regexp with /^100_/ to say "files starting with ‘100_’ "
    but it doensn’t seem to work.

I don’t usually use Find… Dir is fairly powerful.

Dir[“100*”] # all 100-type files in current dir
Dir["**/100*"] # all in this tree (correct syntax??)

Hal

3

One could use Rio (rio.rubyforge.org)

This would find the files which start with ‘100_’

rio("/Users/alamb/Current-Work/fiches").files(/^100/) do |path|
…
end

To include files in subdirectories that start with ‘100_’ use:

rio("/Users/alamb/Current-Work/fiches").all.files(/^100/) do |path|
…
end