René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"path.parse need","articleBody":"When working with filenames its often need to split path to separate components simultaneously:\n\n```\nvar dir = path.dirname(f);\nvar base = path.basename(f);\nvar ext= path.extname(f);\n```\n\nInternally all this functions uses universal parser splitPath that each time return all components of path. Moreover this parser returns the `drive` piece of path on Windows, but there is not any public API to achieve it.\n\nIt is possible to introduce new function in `path` module `path.parse(f)`?\n`path.parse` must return object with next properties:\n-  `root` - drive or UNC prefix (Windows specific)\n-  `dir` directory name of a path (=== `path.dirname()` )\n-  `base` last portion of a path (=== `path.basename()` )\n-  `ext` extension (=== `path.extname()` )\n-  `name` basename without extension and dot\n\nAlso, for completness, need the  function `path.format(pathObj)` which takes a parsed path object and return a formatted path string. \n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/litmit","@type":"Person","name":"litmit"},"datePublished":"2014-01-26T18:58:02Z","url":"https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/issues/6976"}