splitdrive

splitdrive(path::AbstractString) -> (AbstractString,AbstractString)

On Windows, split a path into the drive letter part and the path part. On Unix systems, the first component is always the empty string.

Examples

Splitting a Windows path:
```
julia> splitdrive("C:\\Users\\Username\\Documents\\file.txt")
("C:", "\\Users\\Username\\Documents\\file.txt")
```
In this example, the given Windows path is split into the drive letter part ("C:") and the path part ("\Users\Username\Documents\file.txt").
Handling Unix paths:
```
julia> splitdrive("/home/username/file.txt")
("", "/home/username/file.txt")
```
On Unix systems, where there is no drive letter, the first component of the path is always an empty string. In this example, the Unix path is split into an empty string and the path ("/home/username/file.txt").
Splitting a path with a network drive on Windows:
```
julia> splitdrive("\\\\server\\share\\folder\\file.txt")
("\\\\server\\share", "\\folder\\file.txt")
```
When dealing with network paths on Windows, the drive letter part includes the server and share name. In this example, the network path is split into the drive letter part ("\\server\share") and the path part ("\folder\file.txt").

Common mistake example:

julia> splitdrive("/path/file.txt")
("", "/path/file.txt")

In this example, a Unix path is provided to splitdrive. It correctly returns an empty string as the drive letter part since Unix paths do not have drive letters.

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