From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-06-07T21:04:53+09:00
Subject: Re: regex for splitting filenames

On 6/6/06, Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:54, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > On 6/6/06, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org> wrote:
> >> fileroot, type = filename.split(/regex here?/)
> >
> >> I cannot find a way to write a regex that only matches the last
> >> period in the
> >> filename. Is there an elegant way to do this?
> >
> >  ext = File.extname(filename)
> >  file = File.basename(filename, ext)
>
> Equivalent, but I like the semantics a little better
>
> require 'pathname'
> f = Pathname.new(filename)
> f.basename
> f.extname

> pathname is very handy - see the standard library docs: http://ruby-
> doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/pathname/rdoc/index.html

I think you mean f.basename(f.extname) for the basename without the extensions.

-austin
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