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Re: Getting filename without extension...


  • Subject: Re: Getting filename without extension...
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 22:27:33 -0500

On 5/4/05 20:56, "David Marshall" <email@hidden> wrote:

>>> Note that this should even work in OS9.
>>
>> But it's not needed with OS9 because there is no such thing as file
>> extensions in that OS.
>
> There certainly *are* file extensions in that OS. (Okay, I'm guessing
> you meant that they're irrelevant to the OS itself; but certainly it's
> easy to conjure up a scenario in which one would want to script the
> removal of, say, ".html" or ".jpg" from a series of filenames.)

They aren't that irrelevant if you deal with the outside world. I had do
work with them a LOT for my "Make Windows Names" script.

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