Re: [Boost-users] boost::filesystem::path throws exception: invalid name

From: Vivek Nallur (nallur_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-23 23:38:08

My code looks like this:

namespace fs = boost::filesystem;

fs::path full_path(fs::initial_path());
try{
full_path = fs::system_complete(fs::path(filePath, fs::native));
...
fs::create_directories(full_path);
}catch(exception& ex){
std::cout << ex.what() << std::endl;
}

Here, 'filePath' is a const char*, that is passed in, which is of the
form "c:\\a\\b\\"

Upon execution, boost throws an exception saying 'invalid name'. If I
change all the back-slashes to slashes, the exception stating 'invalid
name' still contains "c:" as the offending string.

regs
Vivek

On 23/05/07, Server Levent Yilmaz <leventyilmaz_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi Vivek,
>
> On 5/23/07, Vivek Nallur <nallur_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > My code looks something like this:
>
> fwiw, the following code works just fine with 1.33.1 on Windows (and you do
> not need to use default_name_check if don't need to do this for every path)
>
>    namespace fs = boost::filesystem;
>    fs::path foo_path("c:\\a\\b", fs::native);
>    fs::path bar_path(fs::initial_path());
>
> If you can post the actual code that is causing you problems, it might help
> to spot the error.
>
> Levent
>
>
> --
>  Server Levent Yilmaz
> Mechanical Engineering
> University of Pittsburgh
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