path.parse

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path.parse(path): Object

Attributes

path:string

Returns:Object

The path.parse() method returns an object whose properties represent significant elements of the path. Trailing directory separators are ignored, see path.sep.

The returned object will have the following properties:

Attributes

dir:string

root:string

base:string

name:string

ext:string

For example, on POSIX:

path.parse('/home/user/dir/file.txt');
// Returns:
// { root: '/',
//   dir: '/home/user/dir',
//   base: 'file.txt',
//   ext: '.txt',
//   name: 'file' }

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┌─────────────────────┬────────────┐
│          dir        │    base    │
├──────┬              ├──────┬─────┤
│ root │              │ name │ ext │
"  /    home/user/dir / file  .txt "
└──────┴──────────────┴──────┴─────┘
(All spaces in the "" line should be ignored. They are purely for formatting.)

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On Windows:

path.parse('C:\\path\\dir\\file.txt');
// Returns:
// { root: 'C:\\',
//   dir: 'C:\\path\\dir',
//   base: 'file.txt',
//   ext: '.txt',
//   name: 'file' }

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┌─────────────────────┬────────────┐
│          dir        │    base    │
├──────┬              ├──────┬─────┤
│ root │              │ name │ ext │
" C:\      path\dir   \ file  .txt "
└──────┴──────────────┴──────┴─────┘
(All spaces in the "" line should be ignored. They are purely for formatting.)

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A TypeError is thrown if path is not a string.