Maya: file -q -sn without file extension?

Toast

How to query the scene name wihtout the file extension?

I've tried various forms of tokenize but can't manage this

Edit: Solved!

$name = `file -q -shn -sn`;
$name2 = `basenameEx($name)`;

HOWEVER.

Does anyone know how to query the current directory that the file is in?

passerby

by the file are you referring to the currently opened file in maya?
since if you wanted that directory, wouldn't you just drop the -shn, and remove the file name from the string it gives you?

string $name = `file -q -sn`;
substitute("[^(\\/)]*$", $name, "");

or you could use the workspace command, if you use projects in maya.

string $name ='workspace -q -rd`;

returns the root directory of the project your in.

Toast

Cheers, thanks passerby.

passerby

glad it helped and glad i can still remember my mel after moving away from it.