From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-08-19T05:56:07+09:00
Subject: Re: File.basename default suffix?

Jason Foreman wrote:
> On 8/18/05, Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>A recent discussion on file renaming made me wonder something about
>>File.basename.
>>
>>Is there any reason that the suffix shouldn't default to ".*" ?
>>
>>Current behavior:  File.basename("foo.rb") # -> "foo.rb"
>>Proposed behavior: File.basename("foo.rb") # -> "foo"
>>
>>The current behavior just seems rather pointless to me.  Or is there a
>>good reason for not setting the suffix to a default value?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Dan
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> You'd lose the capability to grab just the filename out of a path then.
> 
> File.basename('/home/users/foo/bar.rb') # => "bar.rb"
> 
> 

Oh, right.  Duh.  Thanks.

Dan