regex: remove file ext

From: picaza (icaza_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:54:01 GMT

hi,
i am trying to lope off the extention of filenames as i read them w/ a
regex. seems like it should be easy but i cant get the regex to work.
i would like to use "\\.\\w$" or "\\.\\S$" but they dont work.
what does work is
"\\...$" or "\\.nc$"
but these dont offer the flexibility i want. the snippet of code follows
thanks,
peter.
+++++++++++++++
/ the regex is ".\w$" a dot followed by a word at the end of the str
Pattern fileExtRegEx = Pattern.compile("\\.\\w$");
Matcher FileExtMatcher;
while ((str = in.readLine()) != null)
     {
     FileExtMatcher = fileExtRegEx.matcher(str);
     str = FileExtMatcher.replaceAll("");
     allNames.add(str);
     }
++++++++++++

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