Re: [Boost-users] [Filesystem] There must be a better way to do path decomposition

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 07:22, Ramon F Herrera <ramon@patriot.net> wrote:

As long as we are on the topic: How do I expand directory notations with dots? For instance, if my app is called like this:

myapp .

The dot should expand to `/home/ramon/src/development' or whatever.

"." is a relative path to the current directory. If you want to get an absolute path, then use <http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/v3/doc/reference.html#system_complete> to apply the relative path to the system cwd.