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instance method

Dir#close

dir.close → nil

static VALUE
dir_close(VALUE dir)
{
    struct dir_data *dirp;

    dirp = dir_get(dir);
    if (!dirp->dir) return Qnil;
    closedir(dirp->dir);
    dirp->dir = NULL;

    return Qnil;
}

Closes the directory stream. Calling this method on closed Dir object is ignored since Ruby 2.3.

Example

d = Dir.new("testdir")
d.close   #=> nil

See also #children #each .unlink #each_child also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1

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