下面是一个正确处理.tar.gz的方法，即使是在目录名中有点的路径中:

private static final String getExtension(final String filename) {
  if (filename == null) return null;
  final String afterLastSlash = filename.substring(filename.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
  final int afterLastBackslash = afterLastSlash.lastIndexOf('\\') + 1;
  final int dotIndex = afterLastSlash.indexOf('.', afterLastBackslash);
  return (dotIndex == -1) ? "" : afterLastSlash.substring(dotIndex + 1);
}

创建afterLastSlash是为了更快地查找afterLastBackslash，因为如果字符串中有一些斜杠，它就不必搜索整个字符串。

原始String中的char[]被重用，没有在那里添加垃圾，JVM可能会注意到afterLastSlash立即是垃圾，以便将其放在堆栈而不是堆上。

试试这个。

String[] extension = "adadad.adad.adnandad.jpg".split("\\.(?=[^\\.]+$)"); // ['adadad.adad.adnandad','jpg']
extension[1] // jpg

在这里我做了一个小方法(然而不是那么安全，并没有检查很多错误)，但如果只有你在编写一个普通的java程序，这就足够找到文件类型了。这对于复杂的文件类型并不适用，但这些文件类型通常不常用。

    public static String getFileType(String path){
       String fileType = null;
       fileType = path.substring(path.indexOf('.',path.lastIndexOf('/'))+1).toUpperCase();
       return fileType;
}

REGEX版本怎么样:

static final Pattern PATTERN = Pattern.compile("(.*)\\.(.*)");

Matcher m = PATTERN.matcher(path);
if (m.find()) {
    System.out.println("File path/name: " + m.group(1));
    System.out.println("Extention: " + m.group(2));
}

或者支持空扩展名:

static final Pattern PATTERN =
    Pattern.compile("((.*\\" + File.separator + ")?(.*)(\\.(.*)))|(.*\\" + File.separator + ")?(.*)");

class Separated {
    String path, name, ext;
}

Separated parsePath(String path) {
    Separated res = new Separated();
    Matcher m = PATTERN.matcher(path);
    if (m.find()) {
        if (m.group(1) != null) {
            res.path = m.group(2);
            res.name = m.group(3);
            res.ext = m.group(5);
        } else {
            res.path = m.group(6);
            res.name = m.group(7);
        }
    }
    return res;
}


Separated sp = parsePath("/root/docs/readme.txt");
System.out.println("path: " + sp.path);
System.out.println("name: " + sp.name);
System.out.println("Extention: " + sp.ext);

*nix的结果: 路径:/root/docs/ 名称:自述 延伸:三种

对于windows, parsePath("c:\windows\readme.txt"): 路径:c: \ windows \ 名称:自述 延伸:三种

从文件名获取文件扩展名

/**
 * The extension separator character.
 */
private static final char EXTENSION_SEPARATOR = '.';

/**
 * The Unix separator character.
 */
private static final char UNIX_SEPARATOR = '/';

/**
 * The Windows separator character.
 */
private static final char WINDOWS_SEPARATOR = '\\';

/**
 * The system separator character.
 */
private static final char SYSTEM_SEPARATOR = File.separatorChar;

/**
 * Gets the extension of a filename.
 * <p>
 * This method returns the textual part of the filename after the last dot.
 * There must be no directory separator after the dot.
 * <pre>
 * foo.txt      --> "txt"
 * a/b/c.jpg    --> "jpg"
 * a/b.txt/c    --> ""
 * a/b/c        --> ""
 * </pre>
 * <p>
 * The output will be the same irrespective of the machine that the code is running on.
 *
 * @param filename the filename to retrieve the extension of.
 * @return the extension of the file or an empty string if none exists.
 */
public static String getExtension(String filename) {
    if (filename == null) {
        return null;
    }
    int index = indexOfExtension(filename);
    if (index == -1) {
        return "";
    } else {
        return filename.substring(index + 1);
    }
}

/**
 * Returns the index of the last extension separator character, which is a dot.
 * <p>
 * This method also checks that there is no directory separator after the last dot.
 * To do this it uses {@link #indexOfLastSeparator(String)} which will
 * handle a file in either Unix or Windows format.
 * <p>
 * The output will be the same irrespective of the machine that the code is running on.
 *
 * @param filename  the filename to find the last path separator in, null returns -1
 * @return the index of the last separator character, or -1 if there
 * is no such character
 */
public static int indexOfExtension(String filename) {
    if (filename == null) {
        return -1;
    }
    int extensionPos = filename.lastIndexOf(EXTENSION_SEPARATOR);
    int lastSeparator = indexOfLastSeparator(filename);
    return (lastSeparator > extensionPos ? -1 : extensionPos);
}

/**
 * Returns the index of the last directory separator character.
 * <p>
 * This method will handle a file in either Unix or Windows format.
 * The position of the last forward or backslash is returned.
 * <p>
 * The output will be the same irrespective of the machine that the code is running on.
 *
 * @param filename  the filename to find the last path separator in, null returns -1
 * @return the index of the last separator character, or -1 if there
 * is no such character
 */
public static int indexOfLastSeparator(String filename) {
    if (filename == null) {
        return -1;
    }
    int lastUnixPos = filename.lastIndexOf(UNIX_SEPARATOR);
    int lastWindowsPos = filename.lastIndexOf(WINDOWS_SEPARATOR);
    return Math.max(lastUnixPos, lastWindowsPos);
}

学分

复制自Apache FileNameUtils Class - http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/1.3.2/org/apache/commons/io/FilenameUtils.java#FilenameUtils.getExtension%28java.lang.String%29

如何(使用Java 1.5 RegEx):

    String[] split = fullFileName.split("\\.");
    String ext = split[split.length - 1];