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1. swiftcoder · 1789659407 · focus · HN ↗

   > Under a comment that reads // Workaround for trailing slashes, my code tacks an “a” onto the path so there’s always a last segment to cut off, then cuts it off with a find-and-replace. When the path ends in a slash, that last segment is just the “a”, and the find-and-replace takes every other “a” in the path with it.

   This is top-tier. left-pad levels of "we should just implement trivial functions in our own codebases"

   (I do not mean that as a knock on the author - it solved his use case just fine. Everyone who took a dependency on it afterward though...)

   1. kstrauser · 1789659827 · focus · HN ↗

      Heh, right?

      Author: Ugh, this is ugly, but it fixes the specific problem I’m having so I can go on and work on other things.

      Author, later: What do you mean, you’re all using this?

      1. jakeasmith · 1789679786 · focus · HN ↗

         hahaha yes, this exactly

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