I agree that the situation is less than ideal but I’m not sure I’d want
silently different behaviour just because I was running on a different
OS though. Sadly both U*Xs and Win support upper and lower case file
names but only Win thinks that case doesn’t matter in a file name. I
wouldn’t like to run my script under linux and find that it didn’t find
some of the files that it did under windows. A tough call.
Doesn’t do anything for readability but
Dir["*.[xX][bB][xX]"]
will at least get you the files that you want.
I don’t understand why you’d have to normalise the case of all of your
strings though - but there again I don’t know what the purpose of your
script is.
Hope this helps,
Jon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Persampieri [mailto:jason@persampieri.net]
Sent: 05 February 2003 20:33
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: case-sensitivity and Dir
I noticed a couple of mentions of this in the archives, but no
resolutions (or even definitive
statements).
On windows (and similar) systems, shouldn’t Dir[".xbx"] and
Dir[".XBX"] be identical?
No big deal, I figure… I’ll just set $= to true, right? Wrong.
Apparently this doesn’t affect
whatever Dir uses to match filenames… doh!
I’d hate to think I have to make all of my strings upper|lower case…
one of the requirements of
this script is to be EXTREMELY readable… even adding that small bit of
overhead is frowned upon.
Jason
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