[Q] Changing Windows File Extensions

Tue Dec 17 07:41:16 UTC 2002

On Monday 16 December 2002 10:33 pm, Ken Collins wrote:
> Say I have a directory: 'C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\GoodSqueak\New Folder'
> which contains 14 .txt files. How can I chance the .txt extensions
> to .doc in Squeak?
>
> Squeak 3.4beta[VI4]latest update: #5138

Look at FileDirectory>>rename:toBe:

Maybe something like this:

dir := FileDirectory on: 'C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\GoodSqueak\New Folder'.
dir fileNames do: [ :oldName | | newName |
	newName := oldName copyReplaceAll: '.txt' with: '.doc'.
	dir rename: oldName toBe: newName ]

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