At 09:48 a -0500 01/20/2011, Mark J. Reed didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Claudio Braga <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Il giorno 20/gen/2011, alle ore 15.33, Mark J. Reed ha scritto: >> >>> >>> set text item delimiters to "." >>> set bareName to text items 1 through -2 of theName as text >>> >>> The only flaw I see in this approach is that it doesn't elevate the >>> idea of "name extension" into an abstraction that sits above the idea >>> of "part of a string after a period". And I'm not sure how valuable >>> such an abstraction is anyway. >>> >> >> I guess this will not work for a file with multiple "." in the >>name. I'll stick with the previous solution > >No, it will absolutely work for a file with multiple periods in the >name, Well that depends on how you consider, say, document.ps.gz -- but maybe that's only an issue for a Web server. :-) -boo writing his own CMS