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

From: me22 (me22.ca_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-17 19:04:55

On 4/17/07, Graham Reitz <graham.cpp_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Why does the following path initialization throw this?
>
> "boost::filesystem::path: invalid name "c:" in path:
> "c:/dev/Sandbox/file_system/
> textfile1.txt"
>
It comes from the name checker, as Rush Manbert mentioned.

> //  Is this not an appropriate method to initialize path objects?
>     path text_file(current_path().string() +
> "/textfile1.txt");
You might consider path text_file = complete("./textfile1.txt"); (or
http://boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/operations.htm#system_complete if
you really need current_path), which may avoid the need to futz with
the name checkers.

~ Scott McMurray