[R] Regular expressions on filenames

[Jeff Newmiller]

You want to match a period and anything that follows to the end of the string, as long as what follows has no period in it.
"\\.[^.]*$"
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Fisher Dennis <fisher at plessthan.com> wrote:
>R 3.0.2
>OS X
>
>Colleagues
>
>I am writing code to read a large number of files in a particular
>folder.  In some situations, there may be two versions of the file with
>different extensions, e.g.:
>	FILE.csv
>	FILE.xls
>I extracted the portion before the extension with:
>	sub("\\..*$", "", basename(FILELIST))
>then used 
>	duplicated
>to find duplicates.  All was well until I encountered files named:
>	FILE.XXX.csv
>	FILE.YYY.xls
>
>My regular expression extracted only the “FILE” portion of the text and
>claimed that the filenames (without the extensions) matched.  Can
>someone provide me with the appropriate regular expression to deal with
>this?  Thanks.
>
>Dennis
>
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