Harry Nash wrote:
> I am new to code writting, have to learn Ruby (windows) so I am trying
> to
> do some experaments working with files and directories.
> 
> This code, (I thinks) creates an array called file. I can do some tricks
> to test that, array.empty? and I get back false for each element. I want
> to be able to select each element on at a time But all I get is numbers.
> 
> Dir.chdir("e:/sourcemp3")
> puts Dir.pwd
> 
> Dir.foreach(".") do |file|
>     puts file
> end
> 
> The code above will list all files in the directory. I need only the
> first
> file with .mp3 extion. It would be better not to use the .foreach but
> what
> could I use?

I usually use the Dir.glob() method in such instances:

  puts Dir.glob('*.mp3').first

I hope that helps.

David
http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com
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