On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Brian Schrom <brian.schrom@pnl.gov> wrote:
Not an argument for or against, but what is the stem and extension in 'filename.with.many.of.periods'? I think the rule you apply to this should be consistent with .file
stem: filename extension: .with.many.of.periods
I think Beman is saying that stem can't be empty.
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