From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-08-24T03:40:31+09:00
Subject: Re: File.extname edge case bug?

Hi --

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Ruby 1.8.2
> Solaris 10
>
> 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.
>
> Am I wrong?  Thoughts?

I see a number of them in my home directory, including:

./.mime.types
./.lynx.cfg
./.ruby.vim
./ruby/.rbconfig.time
./rubycentral/html/.index.html.swp

and a ton of Emacs and svn save files of various kinds.


David

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David A. Black
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