Re: [Boost-users] filesystem path initialization question...

From: Rush Manbert (rush_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-17 18:30:02

Graham Reitz wrote:
> Why does the following path initialization throw this?
> 
> "boost::filesystem::path: invalid name "c:" in path:
> "c:/dev/Sandbox/file_system/
> textfile1.txt"
> 
> How do you set paths that should work on windows and linux without avoiding
> this issue?  Since linux doesn't have drive like C: D: and etc?
> 
> try
> {
> //  Is this not an appropriate method to initialize path objects?
>    path text_file(current_path().string() + "/textfile1.txt");
> 
>     if (exists(text_file))
>     { cout << file_size(text_file) << endl; }
> }
> catch (const filesystem_error& e)
> {
>    cout << e.what() << endl;
> }
> 
> I am running this under windows.
> 
I think you need to use the native name checker like this:

     path text_file(current_path().string() + "/textfile1.txt", 
boost::filesystem::native);

- Rush