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Ruby program to get the list of filenames matching the specified wild card pattern

Ruby Example: Write a program to get the list of filenames matching the specified wild card pattern.
Submitted by Nidhi, on February 21, 2022

Problem Solution:

In this program, we will get the list of filenames matching the specified wild card pattern and print the result.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to get the list of filenames matching the specified wild card pattern is given below. The given program is compiled and executed on Windows 10 Operating System successfully.

# Ruby program to get the list of filenames 
# matching the specified wild card pattern

filenames = Dir::entries("MyDir");
puts "All Filenames: ",filenames;

filenames = Dir::glob("MyDir/Sample*");
puts "\nFile names: ",filenames;

Output:

All Filenames:
.
..
Data.txt
SampleFile1.txt
SampleFile2.txt
SampleFile3.txt
SampleFile4.txt

File names:
MyDir/SampleFile1.txt
MyDir/SampleFile2.txt
MyDir/SampleFile3.txt
MyDir/SampleFile4.txt

Explanation:

In the above program, we get the list of filenames using the Dir::glob() method with a specified wild card pattern and print the result.

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