[feature request] path functions dirname and basename

[shantanugadgil]

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Based on the discussion at:
vectordotdev/vector#22657

Use Cases

Based on the discussion at vectordotdev/vector#22657 I want to be able to extract the "name only" part of a filename_with_extension. I want to use that extracted "only name" as a "service label" when forwarding the logs to Loki.

Hence I am requesting the path functions like dirname and basename

Attempted Solutions

The attempted solution is already at:
vectordotdev/vector#22657

Proposal

In addition to the simple basename/dirname functions, if there was a function to directly yield the "only file name" part, it could be even-more-awesome! 🙂

References

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[titaneric]

I would like to propose new VRL function called parse_path to resolve it.