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→‎Dupe?: commented about the fly-in-the-oinment.
(→‎Dupe?: noted that two more examples were added.)
(→‎Dupe?: commented about the fly-in-the-oinment.)
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::: That's what I thought at first, until I (gasp!) actually read my own post) ... and found that it's not that simple (separating a file extension from a filename that may have no valid extension?) --- but certainly not that complicated, but worthy of some thought.   I went for the boilerplate solution route (for REXX). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 21:08, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
::::Yeah it doesn't sound very different from the search task in my head but now that I've done it I see it has some key variations--most notably (for my Java version anyway) was the case-insensitivity. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] ([[User talk:Mwn3d|talk]]) 17:21, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 
::::: I found that the fly-in-the-ointment (above, which deals with imbedded/leading/trailing blanks) to be a bit of a thorn in one's side, but after some thought, it only took one extra REXX program statement to make it compliant, the comment dealing with it however, was a lot larger. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 20:57, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
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