From: bwv549 <jtprince@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T09:09:25+09:00
Subject: Re: what is best idiom to remove file extension

All great answers - much better than what I was doing before.

To summarize then...

full pathname with no extension:
    File.expand_path(File.basename(fname, File.extname(fname))

easy to remember and read:
    fname.chomp(File.extname(fname) )

shortest:
    fname[/.*(?=\..+$)/]

Thanks all!