getExtension: Get the extension of a vector of filenames
In Smisc: Sego Miscellaneous

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Get the extension of a vector of filenames, assuming that the extension is the set of characters that follows the last ".". A wrapper for grabLast.

1	getExtension(vec, split.char = ".")

`vec`	Character vector (usually containing filenames)
`split.char`	A single character used to split the character strings

Assumes paths are delineated using forward slashes. If an NA is supplied, then an NA is returned. If the desired string doesn't exist (see examples below), a "" is returned.

Character vector of filename extensions

Landon Sego

Additional functions for filename manipulations: stripExtension, stripPath, getPath, grabLast, basename, dirname

getExtension(c(a = "this old file.doc",
               b = "that young file.rtf",
               c = "this.good.file.doc",
               d = "this_bad_file",
               e = "thisfile.",
               f = NA,
               g = "that.this.pdf",
               h = ".", i = ""))

# An example with 'real' files
files <- dir(file.path(path.package(package = "Smisc"), "data"), full.names = TRUE)
print(files)
getExtension(files)