On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 02:14:17PM +0000, Philip Hazelden wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:43 PM Peter Pentchev <r...@ringlet.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 07:00:11AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > Given so many handy methods for built-in classes, it would be nice to > > have > > > a couple of more for some, for instance: > > > > > > IO:Path.stemname > > > Like basename except any suffix is removed > > > > Hmm, this sounds like a nice idea on a first glance, but then again, > > can you tell me exactly what situations would that be useful for? > > Is it for compressed files (e.g. .zip vs .tar.gz) or MS-DOS/Windows > > executables (.com, .exe, .bat), or something else? > > When I strip filename extensions, I usually know exactly what extensions > > I want to strip - e.g. ".conf" or ".pl" or something like that. There > > are very, very rare cases when any extension should be stripped - and > > there's also a problem with that. [snip my explanation of a problem with removing everything after the first dot] > > For a "convert files to $format" thing, you'd want to replace the > extension. You don't need to specify the previous extension(s) if it's a > quick-and-dirty thing where you know everything passed to it will be > acceptable; and you don't want to, if you're passing out to some other > service which can handle various input formats. (e.g. a wrapper around > ffmpeg or ImageMagick or something - they can handle a lot of filetypes > with a lot of likely extensions.)
Right, so that would probably mean that you need a function that removes the *last* extension; that might indeed make sense, although it's trivial to implement as a regular expression substitution (but also beware the case of a filename with no dots at all). G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org p...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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