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<div class="">On Oct 11, 2023, at 11:33 AM, Roger Riggs <<a href="mailto:roger.riggs@oracle.com" class="">roger.riggs@oracle.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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a leading "." (for the directories "." and "..") would not be considered the start of an extension. (As was spec'd earlier). Both "/." and "/.." have an empty extension.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">
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<div>Agreed.</div>
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<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I
would suggest that `removeExtension()` would be more useful if it removed the final ".", if any.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">
<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">`addExtension("txt")`
would be smart enough to handle both "abc." and "abc" resulting in "abc.txt”.</span></div>
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<div class="">I think that would work.</div>
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<div class="">Aside from “.”, “..”, a leading “.” to denote hidden files on UNIX, and various edge cases to be ignored for the moment, I look at the “.” as a separator character somewhat analogous to File.separatorChar.</div>
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<div class="">Thanks,</div>
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<div class="">Brian</div>
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