What is the naming standard for path components?

Question

I keep getting myself in knots when I am manipulating paths and file names because I don’t follow a naming standard for path components.

Consider the following toy pr

Answer 1

Simple answer you could adopt for simple projects:

| name  | example          |
|-------|------------------|
| path  | /foo/bar/baa.txt |
| dir   | /foo/bar/        |
| file  | baa.txt          |
| stem  | baa              |
| ext   | .txt             |
| parent| /foo/bar/        | (useful for parent dirs)