Non-static way to get the filename?

Ruby
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Hello all,

I am new to Ruby etc. etc. (all the usual disclaimer about how i can not
code in Ruby yet etc), so probably because of this i was not able to
find something like

myFile.basename
resp
myFile.anything_which_returns_a_sensible_filename_like_string

and not

File.basename(myFile)

which i find too verbose for Ruby.
By browsing the reference part of the PickAxe 2nd ed, i did not find
any alternative to File.basename. Can somebody help me with this?

Thx,
Peter

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On 5/9/06, Peter S. [email protected] wrote:

File.basename(myFile)

which i find too verbose for Ruby.
By browsing the reference part of the PickAxe 2nd ed, i did not find
any alternative to File.basename. Can somebody help me with this?

Look up Pathname, it’s probably what you want.

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On Tue, 9 May 2006, Peter S. wrote:

and not

File.basename(myFile)

which i find too verbose for Ruby.
By browsing the reference part of the PickAxe 2nd ed, i did not find any
alternative to File.basename. Can somebody help me with this?

Thx,
Peter

 harp:~ > cat a.rb
 require 'pathname'

 pn = Pathname.new __FILE__
 pn = pn.expand_path

 p pn.dirname
 p pn.basename

 tmp = Pathname.new '/tmp'
 p pn.relative_path_from(tmp)


 harp:~ > ruby a.rb
 #<Pathname:/home/ahoward>
 #<Pathname:a.rb>
 #<Pathname:../home/ahoward/a.rb>

and a whole lot more:

 harp:~ > ri Pathname
 -------------------------------------------------------- Class:

Pathname

 Pathname
 --------
      Pathname represents a pathname which locates a file in a
      filesystem. It supports only Unix style pathnames. It does not
      represent the file itself. A Pathname can be relative or

absolute.
It’s not until you try to reference the file that it even
matters
whether the file exists or not.

      Pathname is immutable. It has no method for destructive

update.

      The value of this class is to manipulate file path information

in a
neater way than standard Ruby provides. The examples below
demonstrate the difference. All functionality from File,
FileTest, and some from Dir and FileUtils is included, in an
unsurprising way. It is essentially a facade for all of these,
and
more.

 Examples
 --------
      Example 1: Using Pathname
        require 'pathname'
        p = Pathname.new("/usr/bin/ruby")
        size = p.size              # 27662
        isdir = p.directory?       # false
        dir  = p.dirname           # Pathname:/usr/bin
        base = p.basename          # Pathname:ruby
        dir, base = p.split        # [Pathname:/usr/bin,

Pathname:ruby]
data = p.read
p.open { |f| _ }
p.each_line { |line| _ }

      Example 2: Using standard Ruby
        p = "/usr/bin/ruby"
        size = File.size(p)        # 27662
        isdir = File.directory?(p) # false
        dir  = File.dirname(p)     # "/usr/bin"
        base = File.basename(p)    # "ruby"
        dir, base = File.split(p)  # ["/usr/bin", "ruby"]
        data = File.read(p)
        File.open(p) { |f| _ }
        File.foreach(p) { |line| _ }

      Example 3: Special features
        p1 = Pathname.new("/usr/lib")   # Pathname:/usr/lib
        p2 = p1 + "ruby/1.8"            # Pathname:/usr/lib/ruby/1.8
        p3 = p1.parent                  # Pathname:/usr
        p4 = p2.relative_path_from(p3)  # Pathname:lib/ruby/1.8
        pwd = Pathname.pwd              # Pathname:/home/gavin
        pwd.absolute?                   # true
        p5 = Pathname.new "."           # Pathname:.
        p5 = p5 + "music/../articles"   # Pathname:music/../articles
        p5.cleanpath                    # Pathname:articles
        p5.realpath                     #

Pathname:/home/gavin/articles
p5.children #
[Pathname:/home/gavin/articles/linux, …]

 Breakdown of functionality
 --------------------------
      Core methods
      These methods are effectively manipulating a String, because

that’s
all a path is. Except for #mountpoint?, #children, and
#realpath,
they don’t access the filesystem.

      *   +

regards.

-a