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From: Rush Manbert (rush_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-18 12:29:14


me22 wrote:
> On 4/17/07, Graham Reitz <graham.cpp_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>>Excellent, thanks, that helped. Is that an acceptable method to do this?
>>(using boost::filesystem::native)
>>
>
> In the beginning, name checkers were created. This made a lot of
> people very confused, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
>
> They're not in the TR2 proposal, nor the version of the library that's
> in 1.34, so turning them off is not a problem.
>
This is the sort of "smarter than me" answer I was hoping to see. :-)

But I have a question. If I get a path string from the native (Windows
or Mac, for instance) API, and there is no native name checker, how do I
generically construct a path from it? Is the platform-specific format
dealt with behind the scenes in 1.34?

- Rush


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