path.parse : basename + path.sep issue

[AaronNGray]

Hi,

Don't know whether this is really an issue or not but paths with no file specified and a trailing directory path separator make the 'base' value the last directory, rather than it being blank. This seems a might inconsistent ?

I am getting the same results on Windows and Linux.

var path = require("path");

function path_test() {
    var p = path.parse(path.sep + "test" + path.sep + "test2" + path.sep);

    console.log("root: ", p.root);
    console.log("dir: ", p.dir);
    console.log("base: ", p.base);
    console.log("name: ", p.name);
    console.log("ext: ", p.ext);
}

path_test();

gives

root:  \
dir:  \test
base:  test2
name:  test2
ext:

as base and name are the same its a bit hard to differentiate all cases IMHO

[jameshartig]

I think someone misconfigured the issue mover

[jasnell]

Likely not ideal but the documentation here seems to be lacking so it's not clear. / cc @tjfontaine thoughts?

[AaronNGray]

There don't seem to be any test cases for trailing slash, and the test
cases that are there are pretty minimal.

On 3 March 2015 at 23:46, James M Snell [email protected] wrote:

Likely not ideal but the documentation here seems to be lacking so it's
not clear. / cc @tjfontaine https://github.com/tjfontaine thoughts?

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