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  Windows directories not recognized by ruby? "Kalman H." <kalmanh@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 09:03 -0500
    Re: Windows directories not recognized by ruby? Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> - 2011-04-07 09:23 -0500
    Re: Windows directories not recognized by ruby? paul h <paul@hollyer.me.uk> - 2011-04-07 07:28 -0700
    Re: Windows directories not recognized by ruby? Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-07 09:28 -0500
      Re: Windows directories not recognized by ruby? Regis d'Aubarede <regis.aubarede@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 10:47 -0500
    Re: Windows directories not recognized by ruby? koulikoff <koulikoff@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 11:10 -0700

#2458 — Windows directories not recognized by ruby?

What's wrong with this code?

C:\>mkdir test_ruby

C:\>irb
irb(main):001:0> File.directory? "c:"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> File.directory? "c:\test_ruby"
=> false
irb(main):003:0>

Thanks for any ideas in advance,

-Kalman

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#2459

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 16:03, Kalman H. <kalmanh@gmail.com> wrote:

> irb(main):002:0> File.directory? "c:\test_ruby"

You may want to escape your reverse solidus (backslash), or, better
yet, use a solidus (slash, virgule) instead.

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#2460

On Apr 7, 3:03 pm, "Kalman H." <kalm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with this code?
>
> C:\>mkdir test_ruby
>
> C:\>irb
> irb(main):001:0> File.directory? "c:"
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> File.directory? "c:\test_ruby"
> => false
> irb(main):003:0>
>
> Thanks for any ideas in advance,
>
> -Kalman
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

It's the way Ruby handles your strings. You are using double quotes,
so you need to escape the backslash. If you use single quotes, you can
use the single backslash. Look at the following:

 irb(main):001:0> File.directory? "C:"
 => true
 irb(main):002:0> File.directory? "C:\Users"
 => false
 irb(main):003:0> File.directory? "C:\\Users"
 => true
 irb(main):004:0> File.directory? 'C:\Users'
 => true

HTH

Paul

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#2463

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Kalman H. <kalmanh@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with this code?
>
> C:\>mkdir test_ruby
>
> C:\>irb
> irb(main):001:0> File.directory? "c:"
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> File.directory? "c:\test_ruby"
> => false
> irb(main):003:0>
>

The \ is an escape character, so you are actually checking for "c:
est_ruby" (\t is is the escape sequence for a tab character)

Either try

File.directory? "c:\\test_ruby"

or

File.directory? "c:/test_ruby"

Windows NT *at least* since Vista, but probably XP already, and maybe
even the original NT 3.51, support the forward slash in the command
line.

-- 
Phillip Gawlowski

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I've moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I've played and passed through,
Who'll remember my song or my face.

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#2468

> Windows NT *at least* since Vista, but probably XP already, and maybe
> even the original NT 3.51, support the forward slash in the command
> line.

ForwardSlash works since MSDOS !

From wikipedia "Backslash" :

"The Windows API can accept either the backslash or slash to separate 
directory and file components of a path, but the Microsoft convention is 
to use a backslash, and APIs that return paths put backslash in.[7] 
MS-DOS 2.0 copied the hierarchical file system from Unix and thus used 
the forward slash, but (possibly on the insistence of IBM) added the 
backslash to allow paths to be typed into the command shell while 
retaining compatibility with MS-DOS 1.0 and CP/M where the slash was the 
command-line option indicator (i.e. as in typing "dir/w" to give the 
"wide" option to the "dir" command).[8] Although the command shell was 
the only part of MS-DOS that required this, the use of backslash in 
filenames was propagated to most other parts of the user interface"

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#2478

On Apr 7, 6:03 pm, "Kalman H." <kalm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with this code?
>
> C:\>mkdir test_ruby
>
> C:\>irb
> irb(main):001:0> File.directory? "c:"
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> File.directory? "c:\test_ruby"
> => false
> irb(main):003:0>
>
> Thanks for any ideas in advance,
>
> -Kalman
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

You should use File.directory? File.join(%w[c: test_ruby])

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