Bug #4404: Make Dir.glob respect backslash as if slash in windows

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18) [i386-mingw32]

[rogerdpack (Roger Pack)]

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Hello all.
Related to

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2625

I at times find myself using windows paths in glob's:

Dir[%!C:\Users\Public\Desktop*!]

But it never works, as the backslash must be (manually, or programmatically) replaced by a forward slash.
Could we get the default behavior changed for windows on this? That would be swell.

Thank you!
-r
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[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

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I don't think your example string means what you think it means:

$ ruby -e 'p %!a\x65!, %q!a\x65!'
"ae"
"a\x65"

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[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

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Hi,

You should escape backslash in double quoted string literal("" or %!!) as follows,

Dir[%!C:\Users\Public\Desktop\*!]

or you can use single-quoted string literal('' or %q!!).

Dir['C:\Users\Public\Desktop*']

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[rogerdpack (Roger Pack)]

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sorry for the poor example, the proposal should have been to make

Dir['C:\Users\Public\Desktop*']

work.

-r
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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

\ in glob parameter has special meaning.
So, we can't treat it as directory separator.
This is described in RDoc of Dir#[].