Extracting Filemane without extension
T.Gray
find a standard routine to extract just the filename without the path AND
extension. I want just the filename alone (no ext). I.E. not
"Path\Filename.Ext" , just "Filename". Can anyone share a simple way to
do this?
T.Gray
Steve Schafer (TeamB)
wrote:
NakedName := ChangeFileExt(ExtractFileName(FileName), '');
-Steve
Ralph Friedman (TeamB)
T:
var
fileNameAlone: string;
p: integer;
tmpName: string;
begin
tmpName := ExtractFileName(somefullpath);
p := Pos('.', tmpName);
if p > 0 then
fileNameAlone := Copy(tmpName, 1, p - 1)
else
fileNameAlone := tmpName;
end;
--
Regards
Ralph (TeamB)
Herrsching, Germany
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T.Gray btsg.com> wrote in message <6sksn3$gk...@forums.borland.com>...
|I'm familiar with all the "extract" routines relating to files, but don't
|find a standard routine to extract just the filename without the path AND
|extension. I want just the filename alone (no ext). I.E. not
|"Path\Filename.Ext" , just "Filename". Can anyone share a simple way to
|do this?
|T.Gray
|
|
Kent Briggs
> T:
>
> var
> fileNameAlone: string;
> p: integer;
> tmpName: string;
>
> begin
> tmpName := ExtractFileName(somefullpath);
> p := Pos('.', tmpName);
>
> if p > 0 then
> fileNameAlone := Copy(tmpName, 1, p - 1)
> else
> fileNameAlone := tmpName;
> end;
This method could fail because long file names can have multiple periods in
them. You would need to search for the last period, not the first one.
Kent
Ralph Friedman (TeamB)
var
fileNameAlone: string;
lastDot: PChar;
p: integer;
tmpName: string;
begin
tmpName := ExtractFileName(somefullpath);
lastDot := StrRScan(PChar(tmpName), '.');
if lastDot <> nil then begin
p := lastDot - PChar(tmpName);
fileNameAlone := Copy(tmpName, 1, p)
end
else
fileNameAlone := tmpName;
end;
--
Regards
Ralph (TeamB)
Herrsching, Germany
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Kent Briggs wrote in message <35EEB560...@briggsoft.com>...
Wolfgang Krug
ExtractFileName(somefullpath);
ChangeFileExt('') ?
Wolfgang
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James L. Persons
>
>This method could fail because long file names can have multiple periods in
>them. You would need to search for the last period, not the first one.
>
>Kent
>
Your suggestion will fail if the filename has no extension and some element of
the path does have an extension. Borland seems to have this case covered
properly in ChangeFileExt as suggested by Steve.
James L. Persons
>Your suggestion will fail if the filename has no extension and some element of
>the path does have an extension. Borland seems to have this case covered
>properly in ChangeFileExt as suggested by Steve.
Oops, failed to note the prior use of ExtractFileName, so there can be no path
left. Pretend you're my ex-wife and just ignore me.
Kent Briggs
You still had a good point, though. If you didn't use ExtractFileName, you could
search
for the last period and then make sure there were no backslashes after that. But
yes,
using changefileext with an empty string is the way to go. In my opinion, Microsoft
really made out lives unnecessarily difficult by allowing spaces (for command line
parsing) and multiple periods in long file names.
Kent
nit...@softwareassociates.co.in
> On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:52:25 -0500, "T.Gray" <tgray@<NOSPAM>btsg.com>
> wrote:
>
> >find a standard routine to extract just the filename without the path AND
> >extension. I want just the filename alone (no ext). I.E. not
> >"Path\Filename.Ext" , just "Filename". Can anyone share a simple way to
> >do this?
>
>
> -Steve