From: Matthew Margolis <mrmargolis@...>
Date: 2004-08-05T11:06:38+09:00
Subject: Re: open files in other directories

WATANABE Hirofumi wrote:

>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"
>
>  
>
I ended up going with
File.basename(textfilename, ".txt")  
That left me with just the pre-extension part of the file name.

-Matthew Margolis