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From: Kiwon Um <um.kiwon@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: way to get the file name except the extension
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:45:09 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e5d7a87-d118-4aac-bdb7-aaf6ab8aac14@w1g2000prm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bb880f36-05e4-487d-a657-89c8128bdc7a@a39g2000prl.googlegroups.com

On 2월5일, 오후3시03분, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 4, 9:09 pm, Kiwon Um <um.ki...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello. I'm a newbie to elisp.
>
> > I'm wondering a built-in function or lisp codes to get the file name
> > except the extension from (buffer-name):
> > TestCode.cpp -> TestCode
>
> > Any advise? :)
>
> easy.
>
> you want file-name-sans-extension and file-name-nondirectory.
>
> of langs i know that i've used extensively for processing file and dir
> names, namely Python and Perl, none comes as easy to use as the funcs
> provided in elisp.
>
> you can get file dir name, file name, file suffix, strip suffix,
> create dir including non existing parent dir, convert from full path
> to relative path, etc, all built in in elisp with a simple function.
>
> • File Names - GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
>  http://xahlee.org/elisp/File-Names.html
>
>   Xah
> ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄

Thanks. It really works well. :
(file-name-sans-extension (buffer-name))

P.s. Is there any good reference point of the manual to manipulate the
time related strings, time, date, month, year, etc, like file name?


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-05  5:09 way to get the file name except the extension Kiwon Um
2009-02-05  6:03 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-05  6:45   ` Kiwon Um [this message]
2009-02-05  9:11     ` Time-related functions [Was: way to get the file name except the extension] Juanma Bellón
2009-02-05  7:27 ` way to get the file name except the extension Johan Andersson
2009-02-05  8:21 ` Sebastian Tennant

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