path.parse need

[litmit]

When working with filenames its often need to split path to separate components simultaneously:

var dir = path.dirname(f);
var base = path.basename(f);
var ext= path.extname(f);

Internally 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.

It is possible to introduce new function in path module path.parse(f)?
path.parse must return object with next properties:

• root - drive or UNC prefix (Windows specific)
• dir directory name of a path (=== path.dirname() )
• base last portion of a path (=== path.basename() )
• ext extension (=== path.extname() )
• name basename without extension and dot

Also, for completness, need the function path.format(pathObj) which takes a parsed path object and return a formatted path string.

[roryrjb]

@litmit I'm looking into this now, once I've refined it and done plenty of tests I'll do a pull request.

[chrisdickinson]

Closing as a duplicate of #1224. Moving the discussion there!

[chrisdickinson]

Fixed in 2d17193.