Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.FileSystem] File or Wildcards in Path? How-to do this?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-04 04:52:43

Lawrence Spector wrote:
> Correct.  That is the issue.  It's not just wildcards, it also seems
> that directory_iterator won't handle a single file either (e.g.:
> C:\config.sys).  The file_iterator in regex just seems like it's in
> the wrong place.  I also think this is common functionality that one
> can't reasonably be expected to know exists without deep digging (my
> coworker found it by suspecting that it would likely call
> FindFirstFileA in its implementation and searching on that).
>
> Also, the file_iterator in regex doesn't seem to precisely follow the
> directory_iterator's style.  For example, you can't pass a
> boost::filesystem::path object to the file_iterator.  Another issue
> is that there's no wide version of the file_iterator.
>
> I do think this needs some cleaning up, if for no other reason than
> it seems inconsistent.

Well it's a common enough task that we really should do something about it: 
the file-iterators in Boost.Regex are old pre-boost code used in a 
now-deprecated part of the regex lib.  I guess what we really need is a new 
library submission built on top of Boost.Filesystem.  Any takers?

John.