Methods to handle filename extensions?

I need assistance coming up with a clean way to handle filename
extensions with my application.

While I can come up with several ways of doing so on my own, I felt
perhaps it would be worth asking here to see what more effective or
accepted methods for doing would be presented.

The issue is this. My application accepts files names, intended for
a cross platform unix and windows environment, from the command line.
So the application may get a file name '/home/joe/myExample.ct',
'C:\Work\myExample.ct' or more generically 'myExample.ct' My
application is to convert the data in the .ct file, into something new,
then enter the data into a file in the local directory the application
was executed named 'myExample.out'.

Is their a simplified way to handle this problem?

Tony

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