Hello,
You can use ?basename to write a file.stem function:
basename("/the/path/to/afile.txt")
file.stem <- function(x){
bn <- basename(x)
gsub("\\..*$", "", bn)
}
file.stem("/the/path/to/afile.txt")
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
Em 15-07-2013 15:23, Witold E Wolski escreveu:
Looking for a function which returns the stem of the filename given a path.
i.e.
file.stem("/the/path/to/afile.txt")
afile
regards
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