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Tetralux b44b6e7e50 [path/filepath] Add file stem and long-extension procedures
Adds stem(), short_stem(), and long_ext(); also adds doc-comments to base() and ext().

The 'stem' is usually 'the name' of the file; the basename without the file extension.
To this end, this adds stem(), which is such that:

	stem(path) + ext(path) = base(path)

However, 'file extension' has two different meanings to what constitutes it!

 > What is the extension of: 'name.tar.gz' ?

Colloquially, you would likely think of it as 'a tarball' - which you might think is '.tar.gz'.
But, if you're writing code to process a file of this type, you would first treat it
as a Gzip file, and then treat the result as a TAR file - i.e: '.gz' ... _followed by_ '.tar'.

ext() returns '.gz' here, since that is the most-immediate format that you would need to use
to decode it; it would be a Gzip stream.

Sometimes though, you do actually want to consider these longer file extensions.

Perhaps you're extracting a tarball, and what to know what to call the intermediate tar file;
perhaps you want to check to see if this file is a tarball, or just a Gzip file;
or maybe you just want 'the name' of the file, and not this "strange 'name-and-part-of-the-extension' thing".

So, this also adds short_stem() and long_ext(), such that:

	short_stem(path) + long_ext(path) = base(path)

Thus, we can use either, but the most immediately-useful one is the easiest to reach for:

      stem('name.tar.gz') -> 'name.tar'
       ext('name.tar.gz') -> '.gz'

short_stem('name.tar.gz') -> 'name'
  long_ext('name.tar.gz') -> '.tar.gz'

These procedures are identical to their counterparts when the path only has a simple extension:

      stem('name.txt') -> 'name'
       ext('name.txt') -> '.txt'

short_stem('name.txt') -> 'name'
  long_ext('name.txt') -> '.txt'
2022-04-23 20:25:59 +00:00
Tetralux 7428e52264 Duplicate some basic slice procedures from core:mem into core:slice 2022-04-18 16:56:45 +00:00
Tetralux c686133172 Have get_std_handle() no longer make the handles uninheritable
This caused all handles returned by GetStdHandle() to also not be inheritable,
which prevents you from handing them to child processes that you might create.

This fixes that.
2022-03-31 17:03:12 +00:00
Tetralux 4f9df50dc1 Remove incorrect #packed from sys/windows.STARTUPINFO 2022-03-18 11:42:25 +00:00
Tetralux 2abba6e057 Don't use leading asterisks 2022-02-21 09:51:03 +00:00
Tetralux db5a1b0c78 Add doc comments to strings.split() and strings.split_n() 2022-02-21 09:23:45 +00:00