Split file path into individual components (optionally including separators) — split_path • nat.utils

Split file path into individual components (optionally including separators)

split_path(
  path,
  include.fseps = FALSE,
  omit.duplicate.fseps = FALSE,
  fsep = .Platform$file.sep
)

Arguments

path: A path with directories separated by fseps.
include.fseps: Whether to include the separators in the returned character vector (default FALSE)
omit.duplicate.fseps: Whether to omit duplicate file separators if include.fseps=TRUE (default FALSE).
fsep: The path separator (default to .Platform$file.sep)

Value

A character vector with one element for each component in the path (including path separators if include.fseps=TRUE).

See also

Other path_utils: abs2rel(), common_path()

Examples

split_path("/a/b/c")
#> [1] "a" "b" "c"
split_path("a/b/c")
#> [1] "a" "b" "c"
parts=split_path("/a/b/c", include.fseps=TRUE)
# join parts back up again
paste(parts, collapse = "")
#> [1] "/a/b/c"
split_path("a/b//c", include.fseps=TRUE, omit.duplicate.fseps=TRUE)
#> [1] "a" "/" "b" "/" "c"
# Windows style
split_path("C:\\a\\b\\c", fsep="\\")
#> [1] "C:" "a"  "b"  "c"