From: Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@...>
Date: 2005-08-24T02:56:01+09:00
Subject: Re: File.extname edge case bug?

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:24:17 +0900 Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:

> Should File.extname("..") return "" or "."?  It currently returns ".".
> 
> The comments in the source say that it returns an empty string if the 
> string provided as an argument begins with a "." and is the only "." in 
> the string.
> 
> I would argue that any string that begins with a ".", regardless of how 
> many total "." there are in the string, should return an empty string. 
> My opinion is based on years of convention.  I have never, ever seen 
> string that began with "." and had an extension as well.  No one ever 
> does this afaik.

File.extname(".some_app.conf") => ".conf"
Don't break that :)

Not sure about File.extname("..") though.

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