AutoIt v3.3.15.5 Beta issue with _pathsplit

[jpm]

34 minutes ago, jchd said:

Indeed I've been unable to find a reasonable pattern to match every form a path can have.

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Local $a = [ _
    "fff", _
    "fff.ext", _
    "fff.more.ext", _
    "./fff.more.ext", _
    "..\fff.more.ext", _
    "..\fff. more .ext ", _
    "..\././.../fff. more .ext ", _
    "c:.../fff. more .ext ", _
    "..\fff. more .ext ", _
    "C:\Documents\Newsletters\Summer2018.pdf", _
    "\Program Files\Custom Utilities\StringFinder.exe", _
    "2018\January.xlsx", _
    "..\Publications\TravelBrochure.pdf", _
    "C:\Projects\apilibrary\apilibrary.sln", _
    "C:Projects\apilibrary\apilibrary.sln", _
    "\\system07\C$\", _
    "\\Server2\Share\Test\Foo.txt", _
    "\\.\C:\Test\Foo.txt", _
    "\\?\C:\Test\Foo.txt", _
    "\\.\Volume{b75e2c83-0000-0000-0000-602f00000000}\Test\Foo.txt", _
    "\\?\Volume{b75e2c83-0000-0000-0000-602f00000000}\Test\Foo.txt", _
    "\\.\UNC\Server\Share\Test\Foo.txt", _
    "\\?\UNC\Server\Share\Test\Foo.txt", _
    "\\?\server1\e:\utilities\\filecomparer\", _
    "c:\temp\test-file.txt", _
    "\\127.0.0.1\c$\temp\test-file.txt", _
    "\\LOCALHOST\c$\temp\test-file.txt", _
    "\\.\c:\temp\test-file.txt", _
    "\\?\c:\temp\test-file.txt", _
    "\\.\UNC\LOCALHOST\c$\temp\test-file.txt", _
    "\\127.0.0.1\c$\temp\test-file.txt", _
    "con", _
    "con:", _
    "lpt2", _
    "com4:", _
    "", _       ; invalid
    ".", _      ; invalid
    "Z꞉abc.xyz", _    ; dirty Unicode trick using "꞉" (ChrW(0x2236)) instead of ":" (ASCII column)
    "..", _
    "...", _
    "...a", _
    "....a", _
    "....a.", _
    "....a...", _
    ".a.b", _
    ".a.b.", _
    ".3", _
    "3." _
]

 

so  do you want I change the PathSplit() pattern and do adaptation for "" and "."

[jchd]

No I don't want anything. Just saying things aren't very simple.