Re: filename variable

[William Lupton <wlupton-QSt+ys/nuMyEUIsrzH9SikB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>]

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(perhaps also allow digits in the extension, or anything other than dots)

but no there's a better way; see
https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html#pandoc.path.split_extension

On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 at 13:55, William Lupton <wlupton-QSt+ys/nuMyEUIsrzH9SikB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
wrote:

> something like this perhaps?
>
> local name = file:gsub('%.[a-z]*$', '')
>
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 at 13:33, 'Jan Ulrich Hasecke' via pandoc-discuss <
> pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> Am 25.07.22 um 10:43 schrieb William Lupton:
>> > function Pandoc(pandoc)
>> >    pandoc.meta.output_file = PANDOC_STATE.output_file
>> >    return pandoc
>> > end
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> I tried to strip the extension like this:
>>
>> function Pandoc(pandoc)
>>    pandoc.meta.output_file = PANDOC_STATE.output_file:sub(0, - 5)
>>    return pandoc
>> end
>>
>> But this only works with a three character extension.
>>
>> I guess it should be easy to strip everything after the colon with
>> regexp, if one is not a regexp illiterate like me.
>>
>> juh
>>
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