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

From: Graham Reitz (graham.cpp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-17 20:26:16

Excellent, thanks, that helped.   Is that an acceptable method to do this?
(using boost::filesystem::native)

Or are there other preferred methods of setting up path objects?

Graham

On 4/17/07, Rush Manbert <rush_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> 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
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