From: Jan Friedrich <janfri.rubyforge@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T17:59:31+09:00
Subject: Re: what is best idiom to remove file extension

Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM, bwv549 <jtprince@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can also use:
> 
> File.basename('foo.bar', '.*')
> # "foo"
Be aware if it gets the result you want:
File.basename('foo.tar.gz', '.*')
# => "foo.tar"

However,
Jan Friedrich