Formatting CFOUTPUT

I have a page that lists the contents of a directory and I want to hide the file extension from the output. I know how to format the left side, but not sure to do the right.

Here's what i have now

<CFIF #TYPE# IS "FILE">
<TD width=550><A HREF="/tech_tips/#name#">#name#</A></TD>
<TD width=90><font face=arial size=1>#size#</font></TD></TR>
</CFIF>

I know that to shift the left side 4 spaces i could use
<CFIF #TYPE# IS "FILE">
<TD width=550><A HREF="/tech_tips/#name#">#MID(name, 5,255)#</A></TD>
<TD width=90><font face=arial size=1>#size#</font></TD></TR>
</CFIF>

is there a way to do what i'm asking?

TIA,
Shannon

add: the filenames are different sizes so something like this won't work

<CFIF #TYPE# IS "FILE">
<TD width=550><A HREF="/tech_tips/#name#">#Left(name, LENGTH-4)#</A></TD>
<TD width=90><font face=arial size=1>#size#</font></TD></TR>
</CFIF>

You could do this several ways, here's two options:

treat the dot as a list delimiter:
listFirst( name, '.' )

take the left n-4 characters where n is the length of the file name:
left( len( name ) - 4 )


Also, you don't need pound signs in your cfif. You only need pound signs for output or when evaluating an expression. This works fine <cfif type eq "file">...

Hope that helps.