These two together are a lot like dirname() + basename() but have the benefit that they return clear errors when one passes a special case path to them where the extraction doesn't make sense, i.e. "", "/", "foo", "foo/" and so on. Sooner or later we should probably port all our uses of dirname()/basename() over to this, to catch these special cases more safely.
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