RFR 8057113: (fs) Path should have a method to test the filename extension

[Brian Burkhalter]

Hi Roger,

On Feb 16, 2018, at 1:34 PM, Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at oracle.com> wrote:

> The convention for a single leading "." to indicate a hidden file is fine.
> To keep it simple, the last "." that is not the first character can be the delimiter for the extension.
> 
>   "."  ext  ""
>   ".." ext ""
>   ".a.b" ext "b"
>   "......." ext ""
>   ".....a" ext "a"
>   "....a.b" ext "b"
>   "..foo" ext "foo"
> 
> It might be useful to check how native unix utilities parse these cases.

I did check some of those. In particular

$ basename ..foo

gives “..foo”.

I’ve kept picking away at this and the revised verbiage du moment is

     * Returns the extension of this {@code Path} as a {@code String}. The
     * extension is the suffix of the {@link #getFileName file name} element
     * after the last dot ({@code '.'}). If however the file name is
     * {@code null}, does not contain a dot, has a dot as its first character,
     * the last dot is preceded only by dots, or the last character is a dot,
     * then this method returns an empty {@code String}.

I hope that makes better sense.

Thanks,

Brian
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