Remove file extension from a file name string

Question

If I have a string saying \"abc.txt\", is there a quick way to get a substring that is just \"abc\"?

I can\'t do an fileName.IndexOf(

Answer 1

String.LastIndexOf would work.

string fileName= "abc.123.txt";
int fileExtPos = fileName.LastIndexOf(".");
if (fileExtPos >= 0 )
 fileName= fileName.Substring(0, fileExtPos);

Answer 2

The Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension method gives you the filename you pass as an argument without the extension, as should be obvious from the name.

Answer 3

if you want to use String operation then you can use the function lastIndexOf( ) which Searches for the last occurrence of a character or substring. Java has numerous string functions.

Answer 4

I know it's an old question and Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtensionis a better and maybe cleaner option. But personally I've added this two methods to my project and wanted to share them. This requires C# 8.0 due to it using ranges and indices.

public static string RemoveExtension(this string file) => ReplaceExtension(file, null);

public static string ReplaceExtension(this string file, string extension)
{
    var split = file.Split('.');

    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(extension))
        return string.Join(".", split[..^1]);

    split[^1] = extension;

    return string.Join(".", split);
}

Answer 5

        private void btnfilebrowse_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            OpenFileDialog dlg = new OpenFileDialog();
            //dlg.ShowDialog();
            dlg.Filter = "CSV files (*.csv)|*.csv|XML files (*.xml)|*.xml";
            if (dlg.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
            {
                string fileName;
                fileName = dlg.FileName;
                string filecopy;
                filecopy = dlg.FileName;
                filecopy = Path.GetFileName(filecopy);
                string strFilename;
                strFilename = filecopy;
                 strFilename = strFilename.Substring(0, strFilename.LastIndexOf('.'));
                //fileName = Path.GetFileName(fileName);             

                txtfilepath.Text = strFilename;

                string filedest = System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(".\\Excels_Read\\'"+txtfilepath.Text+"'.csv");
               // filedest = "C:\\Users\\adm\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2010\\Projects\\ConvertFile\\ConvertFile\\Excels_Read";
                FileInfo file = new FileInfo(fileName);
                file.CopyTo(filedest);
             // File.Copy(fileName, filedest,true);
                MessageBox.Show("Import Done!!!");
            }
        }

Answer 6

I used the below, less code

string fileName = "C:\file.docx";
MessageBox.Show(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(fileName),Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(fileName)));

Output will be

C:\file