From: "Olivier D." <nkh@...2_nospam.fr>
Date: 2004-08-05T11:11:28+09:00
Subject: Re: open files in other directories

On 2004-08-05, Matthew Margolis <mrmargolis@wisc.edu> wrote:
> Mehr, Assaph (Assaph) wrote:
>
>>>   campershash["#{textfilename.chop.chop.chop.chop}"] = 
>>
>>Try textfilename[0..-5] for a fixed size slice.
>>

Or maybe a regular expression if the size of the extension is unknown:

filename = "website-20040812.html"
name = $1 if filename =~ /^(.+)\.[^.]+$/