I am trying to extract the extension of a file from a given String path.
The following piece of code works, but I was wondering if there is a cleaner and more idiomatic Rust way to achieve this:
use std::path::Path;
fn main() {
fn get_extension_from_filename(filename: String) -> String {
//Change it to a canonical file path.
let path = Path::new(&filename).canonicalize().expect(
"Expecting an existing filename",
);
let filepath = path.to_str();
let name = filepath.unwrap().split('/');
let names: Vec<&str> = name.collect();
let extension = names.last().expect("File extension can not be read.");
let extens: Vec<&str> = extension.split(".").collect();
extens[1..(extens.len())].join(".").to_string()
}
assert_eq!(get_extension_from_filename("abc.tar.gz".to_string()) ,"tar.gz" );
assert_eq!(get_extension_from_filename("abc..gz".to_string()) ,".gz" );
assert_eq!(get_extension_from_filename("abc.gz".to_string()) , "gz");
}