I applaud your use of a prepackaged module, but I personally think it's a bit overkill in this situation. 

  my @files = qw( foo.zip twotwo.doc three.one.four.ppt four );
  my ( @only_names, @only_exts );
  foreach ( @files )
  {
      if ( m/^ (.*?) (?:\.([^.]+))? $/x )
      {
          push @only_names, $1;
          push @only_exts,  $2; # might be undef
      }
      else
      {
          warn "couldn't parse '$!'";
      }
  }

  # only for debugging output
  foreach ( @only_exts ) { $_ = 'undef' unless defined $_ }

  print "names = [ @only_names ]\n",
        "exts  = [ @only_exts ]\n";

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Which produced: 

  names = [ foo twotwo three.one.four four ]
  exts  = [ zip doc ppt undef ]

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I guess I feel that, since your solution even with a standard module also requires crafting a regex, I'd just as soon write a regex for the whole thing. *shrug*

My main concerns with my solution would be whether the regex is efficient enough — the non-greedy filename part worries me a bit — and the usual "well, you might be able to craft such a regex, but the average programmer..." complaints.

In reply to Re^2: Removing File Extensions by tkil
in thread Removing File Extensions by BalochDude

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