nodeschool learnyounode node.js module FILTER LS exercise

Question

Below is the exercise 5 of nodeschool learnyounode module

Create a program that prints a list of files in a given directory, filtered by he extension of the files. You w

Answer 1

Your problem is just a typo. You're doing this:

    if(ext == ext){ // you're comparing the same variable
      console.log(filename);
    }

, but you should be doing this:

    if(ext === ext1){ // try to use '==='
      console.log(filename);
    }

Other thing: they're not considering the . of .txt in the input, so you have to append this in your variable ext1 because .extname(file) returns the extention with the .:

var ext1 = '.' + process.argv[3];