# Limitations of Path Manipulation action

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/limitations-of-path-manipulation-action/3784
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [November 30, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/limitations-of-path-manipulation-action/3784 "2006-11-30T10:28:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![andreas.axelsson](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@andreas.axelsson](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/andreas.axelsson)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/limitations-of-path-manipulation-action/3784/1 "2006-11-30T10:28:28Z")

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The Path Manipulation action has several options to chose from, but it’s still very limited. To get a filename without extension one needs to run two actions, with multiple intermediate variables. I suggest the action is changed to a transform macro, like in msbuild, where one can access the meta data %(FileName).%(Extension) etc to create the new name.  
  
Until then, I’ll hack some VB.  
  
Cheers,  
/axl

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### Author: ![paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/paulsamways)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2006, 12:16pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/limitations-of-path-manipulation-action/3784/2 "2006-12-01T12:16:38Z")

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Hi Andreas,  
  
Thanks for the suggestion.  
  
Regards,  
Paul.