Method: Dir.entries

Defined in:
dir.c

.entries(dirname) ⇒ Array .entries(dirname, encoding: enc) ⇒ Array

Returns an array containing all of the filenames in the given directory. Will raise a SystemCallError if the named directory doesn’t exist.

The optional encoding keyword argument specifies the encoding of the directory. If not specified, the filesystem encoding is used.

Dir.entries("testdir")   #=> [".", "..", "config.h", "main.rb"]

Overloads:

  • .entries(dirname) ⇒ Array

    Returns:

  • .entries(dirname, encoding: enc) ⇒ Array

    Returns:



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# File 'dir.c', line 2977

static VALUE
dir_entries(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE io)
{
    VALUE dir;

    dir = dir_open_dir(argc, argv);
    return rb_ensure(dir_collect, dir, dir_close, dir);
}