PowerShell - Playing with filenames

Two ways of skinning a cat.

If you need to parse a filename to separate the main body of the filename from the extension.

#1 The first way is useful if you have the file as a .NET object, here is an example that makes everything obvious:

$FileObject = Get-ChildItem "MyFileName.txt"

Write-Host "Main body is: $($FileObject.BaseName)"
Write-Host "File Extension is: $($FileObject.Extension)"

#2 If you only have the filename as a string, you can do this:

$StringOfFileName = "MyFileName.txt"

Write-Host "Main body is: $([System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($StringOfFileName))"

Write-Host "Main body is: $([System.IO.Path]::GetExtension($StringOfFileName))"

Ironically the former where you have a .NET object is pure PowerShell and the latter where you do not have a .NET object is a .NET call.

Cheers