File name without extension name VBA - vba

Question

I need to get file name without extension name by VBA. I know ActiveWorkbook.Name property , but if user haves Windows property Hide extensions for known file types turn off, the result of my code will be [Name.Extension]. How can I return only name of Workbook independent of windows property?
I try even ActiveWorkbook.Application.Caption but I can't customize this property.

Answer 1

The answers given here already may work in limited situations, but are certainly not the best way to go about it. Don't reinvent the wheel. The File System Object in the Microsoft Scripting Runtime library already has a method to do exactly this. It's called GetBaseName. It handles periods in the file name as is.
Public Sub Test()
Dim fso As New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Debug.Print fso.GetBaseName(ActiveWorkbook.Name)
End Sub
Public Sub Test2()
Dim fso As New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Debug.Print fso.GetBaseName("MyFile.something.txt")
End Sub
Instructions for adding a reference to the Scripting Library

Answer 2

Simple but works well for me
FileName = ActiveWorkbook.Name
If InStr(FileName, ".") > 0 Then
FileName = Left(FileName, InStr(FileName, ".") - 1)
End If

Answer 3

Using the Split function seems more elegant than InStr and Left, in my opinion.
Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()
Dim ThisFileName As String
Dim BaseFileName As String
Dim FileNameArray() As String
ThisFileName = ThisWorkbook.Name
FileNameArray = Split(ThisFileName, ".")
BaseFileName = FileNameArray(0)
MsgBox "Base file name is " & BaseFileName
End Sub

Answer 4

This gets the file type as from the last character (so avoids the problem with dots in file names)
Function getFileType(fn As String) As String
''get last instance of "." (full stop) in a filename then returns the part of the filename starting at that dot to the end
Dim strIndex As Integer
Dim x As Integer
Dim myChar As String
strIndex = Len(fn)
For x = 1 To Len(fn)
myChar = Mid(fn, strIndex, 1)
If myChar = "." Then
Exit For
End If
strIndex = strIndex - 1
Next x
getFileType = UCase(Mid(fn, strIndex, Len(fn) - x + 1))
End Function

Answer 5

You could always use Replace() since you're performing this on the workbook's Name, which will almost certainly end with .xlsm by virtue of using VBA.
Using ActiveWorkbook per your example:
Replace(Application.ActiveWorkbook.Name, ".xlsm", "")
Using ThisWorkbook:
Replace(Application.ThisWorkbook.Name, ".xlsm", "")

Answer 6

This thread has been very helpful to me lately. Just to extend on the answer by #RubberDuck, the File System Object in the Microsoft Scripting Runtime library is already there to achieve this. Also if you define it as an Object as below, it will save you the hassle of having to enable 'Microsoft Scripting Runtime' in VBA Tools > References:
Dim fso As Object
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Debug.Print fso.GetBaseName(ActiveWorkbook.Name)
In this way it will return name of the ActiveWorkbook without extension.
There is another way by using INSTRREV function as below:
Dim fname As String
fname = Left(ActiveWorkbook.Name, InStrRev(ActiveWorkbook.Name, ".") - 1)
MsgBox fname
Both will return the same result. Also in both of the methods above, they will retain any full-stops in the file name and only get rid of the last full-stop and the file extension.

Answer 7

To be verbose it the removal of extension is demonstrated for
workbooks.. which now have a variety of extensions .
. a new unsaved Book1 has no ext
. works the same for files
Function WorkbookIsOpen(FWNa$, Optional AnyExt As Boolean = False) As Boolean
Dim wWB As Workbook, WBNa$, PD%
FWNa = Trim(FWNa)
If FWNa <> "" Then
For Each wWB In Workbooks
WBNa = wWB.Name
If AnyExt Then
PD = InStr(WBNa, ".")
If PD > 0 Then WBNa = Left(WBNa, PD - 1)
PD = InStr(FWNa, ".")
If PD > 0 Then FWNa = Left(FWNa, PD - 1)
'
' the alternative of using split.. see commented out below
' looks neater but takes a bit longer then the pair of instr and left
' VBA does about 800,000 of these small splits/sec
' and about 20,000,000 Instr Lefts per sec
' of course if not checking for other extensions they do not matter
' and to any reasonable program
' THIS DISCUSSIONOF TIME TAKEN DOES NOT MATTER
' IN doing about doing 2000 of this routine per sec
' WBNa = Split(WBNa, ".")(0)
'FWNa = Split(FWNa, ".")(0)
End If
If WBNa = FWNa Then
WorkbookIsOpen = True
Exit Function
End If
Next wWB
End If
End Function

Answer 8

I use a macro from my personal.xlsb and run it on both xlsm and xlsx files so a variation on David Metcalfe's answer that I use is
Dim Wrkbook As String
Wrkbook = Replace(Application.ActiveWorkbook.Name, ".xlsx", ".pdf")
Wrkbook = Replace(Application.ActiveWorkbook.Name, ".xlsm", ".pdf")

Answer 9

Here is a solution if you do not want to use FSO.
There were some similar answers before, but here some checks are done to handle multiple dots in name and name without extension.
Function getFileNameWithoutExtension(FullFileName As String)
Dim a() As String
Dim ext_len As Integer, name_len As Integer
If InStr(FullFileName, ".") = 0 Then
getFileNameWithoutExtension = FullFileName
Exit Function
End If
a = Split(ActiveWorkbook.Name, ".")
ext_len = Len(a(UBound(a))) 'extension length (last element of array)
name_len = Len(FullFileName) - ext_len - 1 'length of name without extension and a dot before it
getFileNameWithoutExtension = Left(FullFileName, name_len)
End Function
Sub test1() 'testing the function
MsgBox (getFileNameWithoutExtension("test.xls.xlsx")) ' -> test.xls
MsgBox (getFileNameWithoutExtension("test")) ' -> test
MsgBox (getFileNameWithoutExtension("test.xlsx")) ' -> test
End Sub

Answer 10

strTestString = Left(ThisWorkbook.Name, (InStrRev(ThisWorkbook.Name, ".", -1, vbTextCompare) - 1))
full credit: http://mariaevert.dk/vba/?p=162