Get Extension of Full File Paths

fileExtension(x)

Arguments

x

vector of file paths

Examples

# Define example paths paths <- c("C:/example/file.csv", "file2.txt", "D:/e/f/ghi.jkl.zip") # Get the file name extensions fileExtension(paths)
#> [1] "csv" "txt" "zip"
# Empty string is returned for paths without file name extensions fileExtension("C:/NEWS")
#> [1] ""