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Date: 2011feb4
Language: javaScript

Q.  How about a dirname() and basename() for javaScript?

A.  The approach is the same in both - remove the characters we don't want.

	function basename(path) {
		return path.replace(/.*\//, '');
	}

	function dirname(path) {
		return path.replace(/\/[^\/]*$/,'');
	}

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