Get file name and extension in Ruby

Question

I\'m working on a program to download a video from YouTube, convert it to MP3 and create a directory structure for the files.

My code is:

FileUtils.cd(\"         


        

Answer 1

You can use the following functions for your purpose:

path = "/path/to/xyz.mp4"

File.basename(path)         # => "xyz.mp4"
File.extname(path)          # => ".mp4"
File.basename(path, ".mp4") # => "xyz"
File.basename(path, ".*")   # => "xyz"
File.dirname(path)          # => "/path/to"