On 1/8/2009 9:10 PM, Gundala Viswanath wrote:
Dear all,
The basename() function returns the extension also:
myfile <- "path1/path2/myoutput.txt"
basename(myfile)
[1] "myoutput.txt"
Is there any other function where it just returns
plain base:
"myoutput"
i.e. without 'txt'
I'm curious about something: does "file extension" have a standard
definition? Most (all? I haven't tried them all) of the solutions
presented in this thread would return an empty string for the "plain
base" if given the filename ".bashrc".
Windows (where file extensions really mean something), though reluctant
to create such a file, appears to agree that the extension is bashrc,
even though to me it appears clear that that file has no extension.
Duncan Murdoch
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