How to trim a file extension from a String in JavaScript?

Question

For example, assuming that x = filename.jpg, I want to get filename, where filename could be any file name (Let\'s assume the file nam

Answer 1

I would use something like x.substring(0, x.lastIndexOf('.')). If you're going for performance, don't go for javascript at all :-p No, one more statement really doesn't matter for 99.99999% of all purposes.