Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 4/17/06, Peter Bailey <pbailey / bna.com> wrote:
>> I have an application that converts PDFs to individual EPS files. When
>> it does so, it creates a subdirectory with the same name as the original
>> filename and puts all of the resulting EPS files it creates into that
>> directory. Well, I have to do a lot of scripting and stuff on those EPS
>> files. To automate this, I need to know what the directory name is that
>> it put the files. The application provides a variable, "%2," just for
>> this purpose. I've gotten this %2 variable to work for me in cmd.exe.
>> But, I'd like it to work in RUBY. I'm sure it can be done. But, came
>> someone tell me how I can transfer this %2 variable from my application
>> to a Dir.chdir target?
> 
> %2 is the 2nd argument on the command-line, so you just have to look
> for ARGV[2].
> 
> It'd be interesting to find out what %1 is ;)
> 
> -austin

Thanks, Austin. So, do I do this?

 Dir.chdir(ARGV[2])
 or this
 Dir.chdir("ARGV[2]")?

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