Dir.foreach not with patterns?

[Kurt V. Hindenburg]

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Why does the third one not work as expected? It appears that=20
Dir.foreach will not work with patterns...

#!/usr/bin/ruby

s =3D "/etc/host*"

#1
l =3D Dir=20
p l

#2
Dir.foreach("/etc") { |d| p d }

#3
Dir.foreach(s) { |d| p d }

#4
# This is wasteful
l =3D Dir
l.each { |f| p f }

=2D-=20
^^^ Kurt

There is no good nor evil, just power.

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[nobu.nokada]

Hi,

At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:28:02 +0900,

Why does the third one not work as expected? It appears that
Dir.foreach will not work with patterns...

Use Dir.glob.