* Added path cleanup functions with masking to preserve certain patterns + unit tests, #1298
* Use custom PathClean function instead of path.Clean to apply masks to preserve protocol separator in the path
* Indentation corrected in the test data map to pass the lint
* Fixing ineffassign of a temporary string variable
* Improved variable naming and documentation
* Improved variable naming
* Added benchmarks and improved variable naming in tests
* Removed unnecessary value capture when iterating over a map for keys
* A typo correction
