C++ - Splitting Filename and File Extension

Question

Ok, first of all I don't want to use Boost, or any external libraries. I just want to use the C++ Standard Library. I can easily split strings with a given delimiter with my split() function:

void split(std::string &string, std::vector<std::string> &tokens, const char &delim) {
    std::string ea;
    std::stringstream stream(string);
    while(getline(stream, ea, delim))
        tokens.push_back(ea);
}

I do this on filenames. But there's a problem. There are files that have extensions like: tar.gz, tar.bz2, etc. Also there are some filenames that have extra dots. Some.file.name.tar.gz. I wish to separate Some.file.name and tar.gz Note: The number of dots in a filename isn't constant.

I also tried PathFindExtension but no luck. Is this possible? If so, please enlighten me. Thank you.

Edit: I'm very sorry about not specifying the OS. It's Windows.

Answer 1

I think you could use std::string find_last_of to get the index of the last ., and substr to cut the string (although the "complex extensions" involving multiple dots will require additional work).