From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-08-16T16:54:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Exchanging the extension in a filename

> > filename="abc/x.java"
> > filename.sub(/java$/,'class')
> >
> > This works fine, but I wonder whether there isn't a more
> > elegant way to do it.
> >
> > Ronald
> > --
> > Ronald Fischer <ronald.fisc...@venyon.com>
> > Phone: +49-89-452133-162
> 
> filename = "abc/x.java"
>     ==>"abc/x.java"
> filename[ /java$/ ] = "class"
>     ==>"class"
> filename
>     ==>"abc/x.class"

Thanks - this is a nice alternative (for the case I actually
want to modify filename). Of course it assumes that I know
that the file ends in .java (but this is true in my case anyway).

Ronald