Get filename without extension in R

Question

I have a file

ABCD.csv 

The length before the .csv is not fixed and vary to any length.

How can I extract the portion

Answer 1

Here is an implementation that works for compression and multiple files:

remove.file_ext <- function(path, basename = FALSE) {
  out <- c()
  for (p in path) {
    fext <- file_ext(path)
    compressions <- c("gzip", "gz", "bgz", "zip")
    areCompressed <- fext %in% compressions
    if (areCompressed) {
      ext <- file_ext(file_path_sans_ext(path, compression = FALSE))
      regex <- paste0("*\\.",ext,"\\.", fext,"$")
    } else {
      regex <- paste0("*\\.",fext,"$")
    }
    new <- gsub(pattern = regex, "", path)
    out <- c(out, new)
  }
  return(ifelse(basename, basename(out), out))
}