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-Fix ambiguous and likely errant redundant use of ``BIDSPath.split`` when writing split raw and epochs data, by `Eric Larson`_.
+Fix errant redundant use of ``BIDSPath.split`` when writing split raw and epochs data, by `Eric Larson`_.