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+package path
+
+import (
+	"path"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Shift splits off the first component of p, which will be cleaned of relative
+// components before processing. head will never contain a slash and tail will
+// always be a rooted path without trailing slash.
+//
+// See: https://blog.merovius.de/posts/2017-06-18-how-not-to-use-an-http-router/
+//
+//nolint:nonamedreturns // contains multiple same typed returns
+func Shift(raw string) (head, tail string) {
+	raw = path.Clean("/" + raw)
+	if i := strings.Index(raw[1:], "/") + 1; i <= 0 {
+		return raw[1:i], raw[i:]
+	}
+
+	return raw[1:], "/"
+}