Re: remove extension image's filename

Posted by Christopher Coulon-2 on Mar 20, 2009; 4:07pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/remove-extension-image-s-filename-tp3693232p3693233.html

> It is probably so simple ! Sure, I should find in the archives but I
> searched and I found only a tricky method.
> Let's open an image and get its title (title=getTitle()). Then, do many
> things and measurements with it than finally save the results and an another
> resulting image with the same name.
>
> Example:
> The initial image I open is "toto.tif"
> I want to save final results as "toto.xls" (and not "toto.tif.xls")
> and an another resulting image as "toto_loc.tif" (and not "toto.tif_loc.tif")
>
> For that, we need to get "toto".

Eric,

You can use something like this:

            name = getTitle;
            dotIndex = indexOf(name, ".");
            title = substring(name, 0, dotIndex);

Now your name will be toto.tif and your title will be toto.  Use the title
for your saves.

Chris Coulon
       

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