How to get line by line read of "ls" in bash

The problem:

I wanted to write a bash script that will read the output of 'ls' in a directory and rename each file that matched a specific pattern. However I soon found out that using

for line in ls

was no good as it returned the output word by word.

The solution:

The problem was solved after a bit of googling. The code that I needed was:

ls | while read lineVar
do
...
...
done

What this does:

1. ls pipes its output into "while read" which read line by line and stores each line into $lineVar (you don't need the dollar initially).
2. In the while/do loop I can do the pattern matching using sed and renaming.

The full script (currently with no terminal input - it's all hardcoded):

#!/bin/bash

ls | while read lineVar
do
echo OLD: $lineVar
new=`echo $lineVar | sed -e 's/^.....//g'`
echo Replacing $lineVar with $new
mv "$lineVar" "$new"
done

Hope this helps