I highly highly highly suggest going with lshatzer's suggestion and also read this node titled "Parse out the extension of a filename - return base of filename." written by yours truly. The portion of code to pay special attention to is by rob_au.

This might be a really good node for you and indeed this subject has come up many times. If you will notice, I was trying to re-invent the wheel which many people like to try and do with this particular subject. I quickly learned, however, that I just invented a poorer implementation of the mouse-trap :(. I learned something though! :)

The File::Basename module, imho, should be the only way to go for this task in a production script.

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- Jim
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In reply to Re: parse filenames by snafu
in thread parse filenames by esolm

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