From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T23:34:24+09:00
Subject: Re: what is best idiom to remove file extension

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:39 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[/.*(?=\..+$)/]

Note that you've lost your robustness with that last:

irb> fname = '.vimrc'
=> ".vimrc"
irb> fname[/.*(?=\..+$)/]
=> ""
irb> fname.chomp(File.extname(fname) )
=> ".vimrc"

martin