diff --git a/application/config/application.php b/application/config/application.php
index a6f937d6..fcafe721 100644
--- a/application/config/application.php
+++ b/application/config/application.php
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
 		'DB' => 'System\\DB',
 		'Download' => 'System\\Download',
 		'Eloquent' => 'System\\DB\\Eloquent',
+		'File' => 'System\\File',
 		'Form' => 'System\\Form',
 		'Hash' => 'System\\Hash',
 		'HTML' => 'System\\HTML',
diff --git a/system/file.php b/system/file.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..069fd20f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/file.php
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?php namespace System;
+
+class File {
+	
+	/**
+	 * Get a file's extension. 
+	 * 
+	 * @param  string $path
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public static function extension($path)
+	{
+		return pathinfo($path, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
+	}
+
+}
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