From: Ian Duggan <ian@...>
Date: 2009-06-01T03:35:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23648] Re: Counterpart to File.extname

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
> File.extname ought to have a complementary method that gets everything
> but the extension. Useful for scripts that need to mangle a filename

Is this too much? I admit I find all the File.* ugly to type every
time I have to do it. It seems verbose.

irb --> fn = "/a/b/c/d.e"
    ==> "/a/b/c/d.e"

irb --> File.join(File.dirname(fn), File.basename(fn, File.extname(fn)))
    ==> "/a/b/c/d"

--Ian