Alternate path splitting

[RiskoZoSlovenska]

Adds nameSplit() (if you have a better name, please do suggest), an alternate to dirname(), basename() and extension() that returns all of those at once. For example, /folder1/folder2/myFile.lua would be split into /folder1/folder2/, myFile and .lua.

Because in most contexts, you'll need at least two of those.

[truemedian]

While I see the reasoning in the function. dirname, basename and extension are all very standard in things that manipulate paths. The other issue is that there are many cases where you just need dirname, or just need extension, so I'm not sure we should do the extra work when its unnecessary

[RiskoZoSlovenska]

What will basename return? Just the root of the filename or the extension as well?

[truemedian]

basename should return the name of the file (everything after the last path separator).

For example basename('/path/to/fs.lua') should return fs.lua

[RiskoZoSlovenska]

Ah. I was hoping for a more convenient way to split the root and extension of a filename, something like Python's os.path.splitext.

If not, Luvit 2.x's path's basename accepts an expected_ext parameter which chops of the extension, any chance that could make it into 3.x too?

[truemedian]

If not, Luvit 2.x's path's basename accepts an expected_ext parameter which chops of the extension, any chance that could make it into 3.x too?

Yes, I missed this but it should exist