How do I get a file path without extension in PowerShell?

Question

I have an absolute path in a variable in my powershell 2.0 script. I want to strip off the extension but keep the full path and file name. Easiest way to do that?

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Answer 1

# the path
$file = 'C:\Temp\MyFolder\mytextfile.fake.ext.txt'

# using regular expression
$file -replace '\.[^.\\/]+$'

# or using System.IO.Path (too verbose but useful to know)
Join-Path ([System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName($file)) ([System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($file))