rmv.ext {reader}

Remove the file extension from a file-name.

Description

Default is to only remove from a known list of file types, this is to protect files with '.' which may not have an extension This option can be changed, and more types can be specified too.

Usage

rmv.ext(fn = NULL, only.known = TRUE, more.known = NULL,
  print.known = FALSE)

Arguments

fn

filename(s) (with full path is ok too)

only.known

logical, only remove extension if in the 'known' list

more.known

character vector, add to the list of known extensions

print.known

return the list of 'known' file extensions

Value

returns the file name/path without the file extension

Author(s)

Nicholas Cooper [e-mail]

See Also

get.ext

Examples

rmv.ext(print.known=TRUE)
rmv.ext("/documents/nick/mydoc.xlsx")
rmv.ext(c("temp.cnv","temp.txt","temp.epi"))
# remove anything that looks like an extension
rmv.ext(c("temp.cnv","temp.txt","temp.epi"),only.known=FALSE) 
# add to list of known extensions
rmv.ext(c("temp.cnv","temp.txt","temp.epi"),more.known="epi")