powershell - extract file name and extension

Question

I need to extract file name and extension from e.g. my.file.xlsx. I don\'t know the name of file or extension and there may be more dots in the name, so I need to search the

Answer 1

As of PowerShell 6.0, Split-Path has an -Extenstion parameter. This means you can do:

$path | Split-Path -Extension

or

Split-Path -Path $path -Extension

For $path = "test.txt" both versions will return .txt, inluding the full stop.