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| -A comprehensive, cross-platform path manipulation library for Dart.
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| -The path package provides common operations for manipulating paths:
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| -joining, splitting, normalizing, etc.
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| -We've tried very hard to make this library do the "right" thing on whatever
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| -platform you run it on, including in the browser. When you use the top-level
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| -functions, it will assume the current platform's path style and work with
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| -that. If you want to explicitly work with paths of a specific style, you can
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| -construct a `path.Context` for that style.
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| -## Using
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| -The path library was designed to be imported with a prefix, though you don't
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| -have to if you don't want to:
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| -```dart
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| -import 'package:path/path.dart' as path;
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| -```
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| -The most common way to use the library is through the top-level functions.
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| -These manipulate path strings based on your current working directory and
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| -the path style (POSIX, Windows, or URLs) of the host platform. For example:
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| -```dart
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| -path.join("directory", "file.txt");
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| -This calls the top-level [join] function to join "directory" and
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| -"file.txt" using the current platform's directory separator.
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| -If you want to work with paths for a specific platform regardless of the
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| -underlying platform that the program is running on, you can create a
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| -[Context] and give it an explicit [Style]:
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| -```dart
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| -var context = new path.Context(style: Style.windows);
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| -context.join("directory", "file.txt");
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| -This will join "directory" and "file.txt" using the Windows path separator,
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| -even when the program is run on a POSIX machine.
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| -## FAQ
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| -### Where can I use this?
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| -Pathos runs on the Dart VM and in the browser under both dart2js and Dartium.
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| -Under dart2js, it currently returns "." as the current working directory, while
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| -under Dartium it returns the current URL.
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| -### Why doesn't this make paths first-class objects?
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| -When you have path *objects*, then every API that takes a path has to decide if
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| -it accepts strings, path objects, or both.
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| - * Accepting strings is the most convenient, but then it seems weird to have
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| - these path objects that aren't actually accepted by anything that needs a
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| - path. Once you've created a path, you have to always call `.toString()` on
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| - it before you can do anything useful with it.
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| - * Requiring objects forces users to wrap path strings in these objects, which
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| - is tedious. It also means coupling that API to whatever library defines this
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| - path class. If there are multiple "path" libraries that each define their
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| - own path types, then any library that works with paths has to pick which one
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| - it uses.
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| - * Taking both means you can't type your API. That defeats the purpose of
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| - having a path type: why have a type if your APIs can't annotate that they
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| - expect it?
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| -Given that, we've decided this library should simply treat paths as strings.
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| -### How cross-platform is this?
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| -We believe this library handles most of the corner cases of Windows paths
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| -(POSIX paths are generally pretty straightforward):
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| - * It understands that *both* "/" and "\" are valid path separators, not just
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| - "\".
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| - * It can accurately tell if a path is absolute based on drive-letters or UNC
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| - * It understands that "/foo" is not an absolute path on Windows.
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| - * It knows that "C:\foo\one.txt" and "c:/foo\two.txt" are two files in the
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| -### What is a "path" in the browser?
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| -If you use this package in a browser, then it considers the "platform" to be
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| -the browser itself and uses URL strings to represent "browser paths".
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