Use the Parse module. For your example using the format string
"%[^.].txt" would suffice. Unfortunately the parse module doesnt
seem to handle the more obvious "%s.txt".
Richard.
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Oh, that's purty!
I flipped back through the tattered pages of my O'Reilly "sed & awk"
and maybe finally understand the ^ as exclusion metacharacter! Thanks.
It appears you can be more "parse"imonious here though and simply use "%[^.]"
But I needed this the other day (to tear off all but the suffix from
a filepath/name input from FileSelector, so thanks!
BTW, David et al., I may have posted in the past, but here's a trick
to stuff a format template manufactured on the fly into Format.
Haven't tried it on Parse, but it should work:
The template string is: "%%%d.%df"
then feed two integers in. This gives you a variable float format
expression, like "%3.1f"
Feed this into the template of another Format and also the float you
want to format.
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