Help on Directory Iteration

Hi People i have never done file or Directory manipulations before.
now in my form i have given date field and search button.
if the user enters date and clicks the search button,accoding to the
date entered it has to search for the folder in the ChatHistory folder
for example user enters date like 2009-01-23 means it has to search for
the folder which named 2009-01-23.
if the foder exists again it has to be iterated when i do this i get
error.
folder structure would be ChatHistory has one folder like 2009-01-23
has two folder namely test and user these two folders contain 2 files
each.
My code starts here
if params[:first_name].blank? and params[:second_name].blank? and
!params[:e_date][0].blank? and params[:e_date][1].blank?
  puts "frtst date is not blank others are blank"
  Dir.foreach("ChatHistory") do |f|
    if f == params[:e_date][0]
       puts "there:"
       Dir.foreach(f) do |p|
       puts p
       end
    end
  end

Pls Kindly help me up

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Hi People i have never done file or Directory manipulations before.
now in my form i have given date field and search button.
if the user enters date and clicks the search button,accoding to the
date entered it has to search for the folder in the ChatHistory folder
for example user enters date like 2009-01-23 means it has to search for
the folder which named 2009-01-23.
if the foder exists again it has to be iterated when i do this i get
error.
folder structure would be ChatHistory has one folder like 2009-01-23
has two folder namely test and user these two folders contain 2 files
each.
My code starts here
if params[:first_name].blank? and params[:second_name].blank? and
!params[:e_date][0].blank? and params[:e_date][1].blank?
  puts "frtst date is not blank others are blank"
  Dir.foreach("ChatHistory") do |f|
    if f == params[:e_date][0]
       puts "there:"
       Dir.foreach(f) do |p|

f does not contain the full path here so you need something like:

        Dir.foreach(File.join("ChatHistory",f)) do |p|

Btw, it's often helpful to put a few printing statements here and there during debugging. :slight_smile:

       puts p
       end
    end
  end

Kind regards

  robert

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On 27.01.2009 07:32, Newb Newb wrote:

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# Dir.foreach("ChatHistory") do |f|
# if f == params[:e_date][0]
# puts "there:"
# Dir.foreach(f) do |p|
# puts p
# end
# end
# end

hmm, folder/filnames are uniq for each level, so you should *not need to iterate that no? that is,

  Dir.foreach('ChatHistory/'+params[:e_date][0]) do |path|
    puts path unless %w(. ..).include? path
  end

and i would also refrain using p as a var name :wink:

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From: Newb Newb [mailto:revathy.p@angleritech.com]

Newb Newb wrote:

folder structure would be ChatHistory has one folder like 2009-01-23
has two folder namely test and user these two folders contain 2 files
each.

You can get a list of all files and subdirectories under a subdirectory
like this:

  Dir["ChatHistory/2009-01-23/**/*"]

Note: if you are inserting a value from a parameter, you should sanitise
it first. At least remove /../, although it's safest to allow only valid
values like this:

  date = params[:date]
  raise "Bad date format" unless date =~ /\A\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d\z/
  Dir["ChatHistory/#{date}/**/*"].each do |f|
    ...
  end

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if params[:first_name].blank? and params[:second_name].blank? and
!params[:e_date][0].blank? and params[:e_date][1].blank?
  puts "frtst date is not blank others are blank"
  Dir.foreach("ChatHistory") do |folder_name|
    if folder_name == params[:e_date][0]
      puts "there:"
      puts folder_name
      @sub_folder_one = Array.new
      Dir.foreach(File.join("ChatHistory",folder_name)) do

sub_folder_name|

      @sub_folder_one << sub_folder_name
      end
    end
  end
end
@sub_folder_one array has two folder names
                  one is =>
jayabharathy@angleritech.com~Vs~kannan@angleritech.com
                  second is => testing
14;23;45-jayabharathy@angleritech.com
                  in this i don't need the folder name which has date in
that.
                  that i don't need testing
14;23;45-jayabharathy@angleritech.com
                  but i need
jayabharathy@angleritech.com~Vs~kannan@angleritech.com
how can i do that help me up pls

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Newb Newb wrote:

Thanks for the timely reply

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On 27.01.2009 10:47, Newb Newb wrote:

Newb Newb wrote:

Thanks for the timely reply

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