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Discussion on: Put Down the Destructuring Hammer

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Andreas Iosifelis • • Edited on

I love how we can get the extension of a file name like so:

const [, extension] = filename.split('.')
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Joakim Hedlund •

I get the feeling this approach won't work well with files such as foo.bar.js. You may want to reverse() after splitting and picking the first entry as extension instead.

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Vesa Piittinen • • Edited on 
const filename = 'filename.test.js';
const extension = filename.split('.').pop();
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Or if you must have destructure:

const [extension] = /[^.]+$/.exec(filename) ?? [];
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But whichever solution that actually is able to select the very last part will work.