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class method

File.split

(::path file_name) -> [ ::String, ::String ]

File.split(string) → array_of_strings

static VALUE
rb_file_s_split(VALUE klass, VALUE path)
{
    FilePathStringValue(path);          /* get rid of converting twice */
    return rb_assoc_new(rb_file_dirname(path), rb_file_s_basename(1,&path,Qundef));
}

Returns a 2-element array of strings containing the ::dirname and ::basename of the the given string:

Example

File.split('doc/maintainers.md') # => ["doc", "maintainers.md"]
File.split('doc/')               # => [".", "doc"]
File.split('README.md')          # => [".", "README.md"]
File.split('/tmp/nosuch')        # => ["/tmp", "nosuch"]
File.split('@@##$$/%%^^&&')      # => ["@@#\#$$", "%%^^&&"]

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