get_file_ext() is similar to file_ext(), the
difference is that it returns the file extension with the dot
separator (e.g., .csv).
Arguments
- file
A
charactervector with file paths.
Value
A character vector containing the file
extension of the files.
See also
Other string functions:
get_file_name_without_ext()
Examples
get_file_ext("example.txt")
#> [1] ".txt"
#> [1] ".txt" # Expected
get_file_ext("/path/to/file.tar.gz")
#> [1] ".gz"
#> [1] ".gz" # Expected
get_file_ext("no-extension")
#> [1] NA
#> [1] NA # Expected
get_file_ext(c("data.csv", "data.rds"))
#> [1] ".csv" ".rds"
#> [1] ".csv" ".rds" # Expected