Stefan Lang
12/18/2008 8:18:00 PM
2008/12/18 Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@yahoo.com>:
> I am trying to extract an exact filename so that I can use mtime method.
> It appears to be needing an exact filename and maybe I am getting other
> artifacts when iterating through this directory. Would you know how to
> fix? Please help me with this. Thanks. MC
>
> require "fileutils"
> require 'find'
> require 'ftools'
You aren't using anything from the above three libraries,
so you can remove the requires.
> Dir.entries("C:/New").each do |filename|
filename is a plain filename without directory part.
That's why it's not found.
> if File.extname(filename) == ".txt" then
> filename.to_s
> puts File.mtime(filename) #<--gets error 'No such file or directory'
> ENOENT
> puts File.mtime("C:/New/2343434.txt")#<--works by outputting modified
> time
> end
> end
This would be a simpler way:
Dir["C:/New/*.txt"].each { |path|
puts File.mtime(path)
}
Stefan