From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T15:02:21+09:00
Subject: Re: what is best idiom to remove file extension

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM, bwv549 <jtprince@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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[/.*(?=\..+$)/]

You can also use:

File.basename('foo.bar', '.*')
# "foo"

^ manveru