[Resolved] Read undefined filenames

[BlueScope]

Fot those of you who don't get the thread's title at all, let me explain what I mean... well of course, it has to do with the filename reading/opening code in Ruby RGSS, i.e. something like this:

file = File.open("Example.txt")

Well, let's say, though, I want to have variable filenames I can't line up like numbers to work with the for x in 0..n function. Instead, those might be filenames like "TestExample.txt", "TestWhatever.txt", "TestPlaceholder.txt", whatever you can think of... well, the key element is the "Test" in all of those, as I search for a method with which I can check if there's a file with this component in *.txt format... I tried the .exist? method, but I didn't succeed... I hope you can help me out with this...

EDIT: Oh, and while on it, it'd be handy to know how one'd be able to open all files in a directory in a for x in 0..n like way, one after another...

Thanks in advance; please tell me if I expressed myself unclear...

 

[vgvgf]

Use this:

entries = Dir.entries(".")
entries.delete_at(0)
entries.delete_at(0)
entries.sort!
c = 0
for i in 0...entries.size
  if File.extname(skin[i - c]) != ".txt"
    entries.delete_at(i - c)
    c += 1
  end
end
p entries

 

[BlueScope]

Hm... I could put that in use (and I don't need the "Test"-containing method anymore, maybe for good-to-know-purposes, though...), now I only need the method for deleting the ".txt" from each arrays' contents... I tried this:

    for i in 0...entries.size
      entries[i].delete(".txt")
    end

... what returned me contents without t's and x's...#

Oh, and thanks up to this point of course!

 

[vgvgf]

Use this:

entries = Dir.entries(".")
entries.delete_at(0)
entries.delete_at(0)
entries.sort!
c = 0
for i in 0...entries.size
  if File.extname(skin[i - c]) != ".txt"
    entries.delete_at(i - c)
    c += 1
  else
    entries[i - c] = File.basename(entries[i - c], ".txt")
  end
end
p entries

 

[BlueScope]

Damn, you're refering exactly to the part I took out... damn me ^_^ Well, you might take a look at what I used until now, the commented-out stuff is what I thought would work, but didn't...

  def method
    entries = Dir.entries("Directory/.")
    entries.delete_at(0)
    entries.delete_at(0)
    entries.sort!
    #for i in 0...entries.size
    #  entries[i].delete(".txt")
    #end
    return entries
  end

 

[vgvgf]

Use this:

def method
  entries = Dir.entries("Directory/.")
  entries.delete_at(0)
  entries.delete_at(0)
  entries.sort!
  for i in 0...entries.size
    entries[i] = File.basename(entries[i], ".txt")
  end
  return entries
end

PD: Sorry, I don't understand well that...

 

[BlueScope]

Works perfect, thank you for your time.

This can be counted as resolved... ^_^

 

[Trickster]

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Thank you!