[thelist] Anal String Replace (ASP)

[Helen]

Is it safe to assume the last three letters are the extension? Or could 
you put all the extensions you want to support into an array?

       Helen

Rob Smith wrote:

>Anal as in strict,
>
>I have a file name:
>filename = "Abbrv. State Names.htm"
>
>What I'd like to do is:
>filename = replace(filename,".","")
>
>However this yields:
>Abbrv State Nameshtm... not good
>
>           o o
>-------000--^--000-------
>
>What I think I may have to do, but this is the LONG way around
>
>filename = replace(filename,".","_")
>filename = replace(filename,"_htm",".htm")
>filename = replace(filename,"_cad",".cad")
>filename = replace(filename,"_doc",".doc")
>filename = replace(filename,"_xls",".xls")
>filename = replace(filename,"_pdf",".pdf")
>
>...and so on and so forth for every known file extension to restore the file
>name.
>
>There has GOT to be a smarter way around this. Ideas,
>
>Rob Smith
>  
>