Utilities enhancing basename()

Utilities for getting name of files and extension in another whay than of tools::file_ext() and others corresponding functions.

basename_core(x)

basename_ext(x)

Arguments

x

character vector, file paths

Value

character vector of processed files.

Details

basename_core() differs from tools::file_path_sans_ext() in this:

  • basename() is first applied

  • "compounded" extensions are removed. See examples.

basename_ext() differs from tools::file_path_sans_ext() in this:

  • basename() is first applied

  • "compounded" extensions are extracted. See examples.

Author

Frédéric Grelot

Examples


# equivalent to tools::file_path_sans_ext
basename_core("toto.7z")
#> [1] "toto"

# different from tools::file_path_sans_ext
basename_core("toto.7z.001")
#> [1] "toto"
basename_core("path/toto.csv")
#> [1] "toto"
basename_core("path/toto.csv.gz")
#> [1] "toto"


# equivalent to tools::file__ext
basename_ext("toto.7z")
#> [1] "7z"
basename_ext("path/toto.csv")
#> [1] "csv"

#'different from tools::file__ext
basename_ext("toto.7z.001")
#> [1] "7z.001"
basename_ext("path/toto.csv.gz")
#> [1] "csv.gz"