Regular expression to remove a file's extension

Question

I am in need of a regular expression that can remove the extension of a filename, returning only the name of the file.

Here are some examples of inputs and outputs:

myfile.png     -> myfile myfile.png.jpg -> myfile.png 

I can obviously do this manually (ie removing everything from the last dot) but I'm sure that there is a regular expression that can do this by itself.

Just for the record, I am doing this in JavaScript

Answer 1

Just for completeness: How could this be achieved without Regular Expressions?

var input = 'myfile.png'; var output = input.substr(0, input.lastIndexOf('.')) || input; 

The || input takes care of the case, where lastIndexOf() provides a -1. You see, it's still a one-liner.