下面是返回值为Optional的版本(因为你不能确定文件有扩展名)…还有健全检查…

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Optional;

public class GetFileExtensionTool {

    public static Optional<String> getFileExtension(File file) {
        if (file == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("file argument was null");
        }
        if (!file.isFile()) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("getFileExtension(File file)"
                    + " called on File object that wasn't an actual file"
                    + " (perhaps a directory or device?). file had path: "
                    + file.getAbsolutePath());
        }
        String fileName = file.getName();
        int i = fileName.lastIndexOf('.');
        if (i > 0) {
            return Optional.of(fileName.substring(i + 1));
        } else {
            return Optional.empty();
        }
    }
}

如果使用Guava库，可以求助于Files实用程序类。它有一个特定的方法getFileExtension()。例如:

String path = "c:/path/to/file/foo.txt";
String ext = Files.getFileExtension(path);
System.out.println(ext); //prints txt

另外，你也可以用类似的函数getNameWithoutExtension()获取文件名:

String filename = Files.getNameWithoutExtension(path);
System.out.println(filename); //prints foo

JFileChooser怎么样?这并不简单，因为你需要解析它的最终输出…

JFileChooser filechooser = new JFileChooser();
File file = new File("your.txt");
System.out.println("the extension type:"+filechooser.getTypeDescription(file));

这是一个MIME类型…

好吧……我忘了你不想知道它的MIME类型。

下面链接中的有趣代码: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/filechooser.html

/*
 * Get the extension of a file.
 */  
public static String getExtension(File f) {
    String ext = null;
    String s = f.getName();
    int i = s.lastIndexOf('.');

    if (i > 0 &&  i < s.length() - 1) {
        ext = s.substring(i+1).toLowerCase();
    }
    return ext;
}

相关问题: 我如何修剪一个文件扩展名从一个字符串在Java?

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

流利的方式:

fileExtension(String fileName) { 返回Optional.of (fileName.lastIndexOf(“。”))。过滤器(i-> i >= 0) .filter(i-> i > fileName.lastIndexOf(File.separator)) . map(文件名::substring) .orElse (" "); ｝