Re: [Boost-users] [filesystem] Other reasons for directory_iterator to crash?

From: Paul Giaccone (paulg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-07 06:13:43

Paul Giaccone wrote:

>I am iterating over the subdirectories in a directory.  The code I have 
>for this has always worked up until now, but now it is crashing when I 
>create the iterator (ask "What did you change?" if you like; the answer 
>is "If I knew that...").
>
>My question is: what can cause the creation of an iterator to crash?  
>Looking at the documentation, directory_iterator(my_path) throws if 
>!exists(my_path), which is fair enough.  This check is already in my 
>code, however, and does not report that the path does not exist.
>  
>

My mistake.  Everything is behaving correctly.  The string to which my 
environment variable was set had a space at the beginning.  I've taken 
this out and it's working again.

Paul