Hi,

I started using filesystem, regex, and bind today. It's been interesting.

I'm using Visual C++ 8.0 on an XP machine that has network filesystems mounted to it, some using letters (H:\, Y:\, etc.), some accessable via two slashes (//linden/temp/, etc). I'd like to peruse these using boost::filesystem.

The following works:

std::string t = "h:\\temp";
boost::filesystem::path p(t, boost::filesystem::native);

but I can't get filesystem to work with the string "h:/temp";

std::string s = p.string(); // s = "h:/temp"

bool b = boost::filesystem::portable_posix_name(s); //returns false
b = boost::filesystem::windows_name(s); //returns false
b = boost::filesystem::portable_name(s); //returns false
b = boost::filesystem::portable_directory_name(s); //returns false
b = boost::filesystem::portbale_file_name(s); //returns false
b = boost::filesystem::native(s); //returns false

Also, I'd like to do the following

std::string q = "//linden/temp/";
boost::filesystem::path p2(q);

Any help is appreciated.

thanks,

matthew