From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2004-08-05T11:01:14+09:00
Subject: Re: open files in other directories

Hi,

"Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@avaya.com> writes:

> You're probably trying to remove the extension. Take a look at File
> class methods: basename, extname, dirname etc. You can strip extension
> by:
> 	base_name = textfilename.delete File.extname(textfilename)

% irb                                                
>> textfilename = "foo.obj"
=> "foo.obj"
>> textfilename.delete File.extname(textfilename)
=> "f"
>> File.basename(textfilename, ".*")
=> "foo"

-- 
eban