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Re: quick strsplit question [message #59196 is a reply to message #59073]

Fri, 07 March 2008 05:56

rlayberry
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On 6 Mar, 10:25, Nigel Wade <n...@ion.le.ac.uk> wrote:
> rlaybe...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Hi
>
>> I am, trying to split an number of terms such as str9=dg_eyemouth.out
>
>> to take off the file extension
>
>> print,strsplit(str9,'.out',/extract,/regex)
>
>> but this gives
>
>> dg_eye h
>
>> any ideas
>
>> thanks
>
>> russ
>
> You've specified /regex. The character "." is a special character in a regex
> which matches anything. So ".out" will match "mout".
>
> You can remove the special nature of "." by preceding it with a backslash. You
> should probably also tie the match to the end of the string by appending a
> dollar:
> print,strsplit(str9,'\.out$',/extract,/regex).
>
> A better approach might be to use the function file_basename:
>
> print,file_basename(str9,[".out"])
>
great, thanks both of the above

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		quick strsplit question By: rlayberry on Thu, 06 March 2008 01:47
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