Re: [boost] [filesystem] A small use case.

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-15 13:33:42

At 01:12 PM 8/15/2002, Vladimir Prus wrote:
 >Thomas Witt wrote:
 >> On Thursday 15 August 2002 17:27, Vladimir Prus wrote:
 >> > Hi,
 >> > I'd like to append a suffix to a path using the filesystem library, 
so
 >> > that
 >> >
 >> > 	directory/path.asm
 >> >
 >> > would become
 >> >
 >> > 	directory/path.asm.cpp
 >> >
 >> > Yet I see no easy way. Is this use case worth supporting?
 >>
 >> What about
 >>
 >> (untested)
 >>
 >> fs::path path_with_suffix(path.branch() << path.leaf() + ".cpp");
 >
 >This  works, but is rather verbose, in my opinion.

Only alternative I'm aware of is to add operations to class fs::path that 
take a string.  But that will make the interface confusing, and more 
error-prone.  Is it a path or is it a string?

If you do the operation a lot, would it be a problem to turn Thomas' little 
snippet into an function for your project?

--Beman