Synopsis

• Returns a list with the first component being the drive letter and the second, the rest of the path.
• If the path contains a drive letter, drive will contain everything up to and including the colon.
• If the path contains a UNC (Universal Naming Convention) path, drive will contain the host name and share, up to but not including the fourth separator.

Input

This describes the input of the filter, the value before | ansible.builtin.win_splitdrive.

Examples

# To get the last name of a file Windows path, like ['C:', '\Users\asdf\foo.txt'] out of 'C:\Users\asdf\foo.txt'
{{ mypath | win_splitdrive }}

# To get path from UNC (Universal Naming Convention) path, like ['//host/computer', '/dir/a'] out of '//host/computer/dir/a'

# just the drive letter, like ['C:'] out of 'C:\Users\asdf\foo.txt'
{{ mypath | win_splitdrive | first }}

# path w/o drive letter, like ['\Users\asdf\foo.txt'] out of 'C:\Users\asdf\foo.txt'
{{ mypath | win_splitdrive | last }}

# just the hostname and share, like ['//host/computer'] out of '//host/computer/dir/a'
{{ mypath | win_splitdrive | first }}

# path w/o hostname and share, like ['/dir/a'] out of '//host/computer/dir/a'
{{ mypath | win_splitdrive | last }}

Return Value