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docxFiles = _FileListToArray('e:\files\documents', '*.docx', 1)

For $i = 1 To UBound($docxFiles) - 1
    GUICtrlSetData($listDocx, $docxFiles[$i])
Next

;listDocx = controlID of the combo list

I want to chop off the .docx at the end, How can I?  :unsure:

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GUICtrlSetData($listDocx, StringRegExpReplace($docxFiles[$i], "(.+?)(\.\w+)\z", "$1"))

Will it chop off anything after a "." (full-stop or point) ?? Ex: file is "my.document.docx" will be "my"?

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TheDcoder, you always ask questions that would simply be answered by taking less time to post here than to test it.

So... 

Global $szMyStr = "my.document.docx" 
ConsoleWrite(StringRegExpReplace($szMyStr, "(.+?)(\.\w+)\z", "$1") & @CRLF)

Test it...

Edit:

I could almost see you asking if I had done something like this though:

Global $szMyStr = "my.document.docx"
ConsoleWrite(_stripExtension($szMyStr) & @CRLF)


Func _stripExtension($sStr)
    Return Execute(BinaryToString("0x537472696E675265674578705265706C6163" & _
        "652824735374722C2022282E2B3F29285C2E5C772B295C7A222C202224312229"))
EndFunc
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TheDcoder, you always ask questions that would simply be answered by taking less time to post here than to test it.

So... 

Global $szMyStr = "my.document.docx" 
ConsoleWrite(StringRegExpReplace($szMyStr, "(.+?)(\.\w+)\z", "$1") & @CRLF)

Test it...

I could test it but it will help googlers

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I think a better question would be: How does that regular expression work?

There are two groups:

(.+?) ..... any characters repeated any number of times in any order.

(.w+)z ..... one dot followed by any word characters until the end of the string.

Googlers can fathom it out for themselves.

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#include<array.au3>
#include<file.au3>

$extension = ".docx"
$docxFiles = _FileListToArray('e:\files\documents', '*' & $extension, 1)

For $i = 1 To UBound($docxFiles) - 1
    $docxFiles[$i] = stringreplace($docxFiles[$i] , $extension , "")
Next

_ArrayDisplay($docxFiles)

,-. .--. ________ .-. .-. ,---. ,-. .-. .-. .-.
|(| / /\ \ |\ /| |__ __||| | | || .-' | |/ / \ \_/ )/
(_) / /__\ \ |(\ / | )| | | `-' | | `-. | | / __ \ (_)
| | | __ | (_)\/ | (_) | | .-. | | .-' | | \ |__| ) (
| | | | |)| | \ / | | | | | |)| | `--. | |) \ | |
`-' |_| (_) | |\/| | `-' /( (_)/( __.' |((_)-' /(_|
'-' '-' (__) (__) (_) (__)

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an edge case that wont be realized given the _FileListToArray parameters.  

,-. .--. ________ .-. .-. ,---. ,-. .-. .-. .-.
|(| / /\ \ |\ /| |__ __||| | | || .-' | |/ / \ \_/ )/
(_) / /__\ \ |(\ / | )| | | `-' | | `-. | | / __ \ (_)
| | | __ | (_)\/ | (_) | | .-. | | .-' | | \ |__| ) (
| | | | |)| | \ / | | | | | |)| | `--. | |) \ | |
`-' |_| (_) | |\/| | `-' /( (_)/( __.' |((_)-' /(_|
'-' '-' (__) (__) (_) (__)

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Hello again, i am having a difficult time with StringRegExpReplace, i want to convert File Path to File name

Here is a piece of code from my project

$locationOfFile = FileOpenDialog("Select Document", @DocumentsCommonDir, "Word File (*.docx)", $FD_FILEMUSTEXIST + $FD_PATHMUSTEXIST)
$nameOfFile = StringRegExpReplace($locationOfFile, )

I can understand how to set the pattern....

Thanks again for the help!  :ILA2:

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TheDcoder,

I have been using these for some years to extract drive/path/name/ext information: :)

; Credit Malkey

Local $sFile = "C:\Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.chm"

; Drive letter -                                     Example returns     "C"
Local $sDrive = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, ":.*$", "")

; Full Path with backslash -                         Example returns     "C:\Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3\"
Local $sPath = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "(^.*\\)(.*)", "\1")

; Full Path without backslash -                      Example returns     "C:\Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3"
Local $sPathExBS = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "(^.*)\\(.*)", "\1")

; Full Path w/o drive letter with backslash -        Example returns     "\Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3\"
Local $sPathExDr = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "(^.:)(\\.*\\)(.*$)", "\2")

; Path w/o drive letter w/o backslash -              Example returns     "Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3"
Local $sPathExDrBS = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "(^.:\\)(.*)(\\.*$)", "\2")

; File name with ext -                               Example returns     "AutoIt3.chm"
Local $sFileName = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\\", "")

; File name w/o ext -                                Example returns     "AutoIt3"
Local $sFilenameExExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\\|\..*$", "")

; Dot Ext -                                          Example returns     ".chm"
Local $sDotExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\.", ".$1")

; Ext -                                              Example returns     "chm"
Local $sExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\.", "")

MsgBox(0, "Path File Name Parts", _
        "Drive             " & @TAB & $sDrive & @CRLF & _
        "Path              " & @TAB & $sPath & @CRLF & _
        "Path w/o\         " & @TAB & $sPathExBS & @CRLF & _
        "Path w/o Drv      " & @TAB & $sPathExDr & @CRLF & _
        "Path w/o Drv or \ " & @TAB & $sPathExDrBS  & @CRLF & _
        "File Name         " & @TAB & $sFileName & @CRLF & _
        "File Name w/o Ext " & @TAB & $sFilenameExExt & @CRLF & _
        "Dot Extension     " & @TAB & $sDotExt & @CRLF & _
        "Extension         " & @TAB & $sExt & @CRLF)
M23

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ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
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ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
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GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
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StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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TheDcoder,

I have been using these for some years to extract drive/path/name/ext information: :)

; Credit Malkey

Local $sFile = "C:\Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.chm"

; Drive letter -                                     Example returns     "C"
Local $sDrive = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, ":.*$", "")

; Full Path with backslash -                         Example returns     "C:\Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3\"
Local $sPath = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "(^.*\\)(.*)", "\1")

; Full Path without backslash -                      Example returns     "C:\Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3"
Local $sPathExBS = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "(^.*)\\(.*)", "\1")

; Full Path w/o drive letter with backslash -        Example returns     "\Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3\"
Local $sPathExDr = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "(^.:)(\\.*\\)(.*$)", "\2")

; Path w/o drive letter w/o backslash -              Example returns     "Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3"
Local $sPathExDrBS = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "(^.:\\)(.*)(\\.*$)", "\2")

; File name with ext -                               Example returns     "AutoIt3.chm"
Local $sFileName = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\\", "")

; File name w/o ext -                                Example returns     "AutoIt3"
Local $sFilenameExExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\\|\..*$", "")

; Dot Ext -                                          Example returns     ".chm"
Local $sDotExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\.", ".$1")

; Ext -                                              Example returns     "chm"
Local $sExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\.", "")

MsgBox(0, "Path File Name Parts", _
        "Drive             " & @TAB & $sDrive & @CRLF & _
        "Path              " & @TAB & $sPath & @CRLF & _
        "Path w/o\         " & @TAB & $sPathExBS & @CRLF & _
        "Path w/o Drv      " & @TAB & $sPathExDr & @CRLF & _
        "Path w/o Drv or \ " & @TAB & $sPathExDrBS  & @CRLF & _
        "File Name         " & @TAB & $sFileName & @CRLF & _
        "File Name w/o Ext " & @TAB & $sFilenameExExt & @CRLF & _
        "Dot Extension     " & @TAB & $sDotExt & @CRLF & _
        "Extension         " & @TAB & $sExt & @CRLF)
M23

 

Thank you very very very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :)

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Melba,

Local $sFile = "C:\Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3\AutoIt.3.chm"
; Dot Ext -  Example returns ".chm"
Local $sDotExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\.", ".$1$1$1$1$1$1$1")
MsgBox(0,"", $sDotExt)

:D

:huh2:  :think:

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Please don't care, it was only a joke for Melba  :)

I only meant that here there is no backreference in the expression, so "$0" returns the whole content of the expression and $1, $2, etc are empty

Local $sFile = "C:\Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.chm"
Local $sDotExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\.", ".$1$2$3 (the dot only is returned), \$0 = ""$0"", remains: ")
MsgBox(0,"", $sDotExt)

So this suffices :

; Dot Ext -           Example returns     ".chm"
Local $sDotExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\.", ".")

:)

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Please don't care, it was only a joke for Melba  :)

I only meant that here there is no backreference in the expression, so "$0" returns the whole content of the expression and $1, $2, etc are empty

Local $sFile = "C:\Program Files\Another Dir\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.chm"
Local $sDotExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\.", ".$1$2$3 (the dot only is returned), \$0 = ""$0"", remains: ")
MsgBox(0,"", $sDotExt)

So this suffices :

; Dot Ext -           Example returns     ".chm"
Local $sDotExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFile, "^.*\.", ".")

:)

oh, ok  :)

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TheDcoder,

When you reply, please use the "Reply to this topic" button at the top of the thread or the "Reply to this topic" editor at the bottom rather than the "Quote" button - we know what we wrote and it just pads the thread unnecessarily. ;)

M23

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Open spoiler to see my UDFs:

Spoiler

ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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