[R] problem for strsplit function

[Jeff Newmiller]

sub( "\\.[^.]*$", "", fname )

On July 7, 2021 6:27:48 PM PDT, Kai Yang via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
> Hello List,
>I have a  one column data frame to store file name with extension. I
>want to create new column to keep file name only without extension.
>I tried to use strsplit("name1.csv", "\\.")[[1]] to do that, but it
>just retain the first row only and it is a vector.  how can do this for
>all of rows and put it into a new column?
>thank you,
>Kai
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