Re: Re: splitting a string

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 16:09, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote: > Of course this doesn't work for something like 'My.Word.Document.docx' > or 'archive_v2.0.1.tar.gz', but I don't know what will with extensions > being variable length and possibly composed of multiple periods. I suppose a solution to that could be having a list of known file extensions and use that while falling back to one of the methods given in this thread if there is no match in the list. Of course you would then have to check .tar.gz before .gz if you're just iterating through a list. You might also just choose the longest match (in terms of number of periods). -- Daniel Egeberg