Re: [Boost-users] [filesystem] basic_path question

From: Robert Dailey (rcdailey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-24 16:00:58

I've read the documentation a little closer at this page:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm#tutorial

I find that it will store paths as forward slashes, and only when you call
basic_path::file_string() will it convert to the platform format. However at
this time I cannot figure out if file_string() is returning a std::string
by-reference or by-value (Still looking through the source for answers to
this).

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Markus Svilans <msvilans_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> I have used Boost paths on Windows like this:
>
>    namespace bf = boost::filesystem;
>    bf::path temp("C:\\Windows\\System32\\", bf::native);
>
> Adding the "native" parameter tells the path object it is parsing a
> Windows path (if compiling on Windows).
>
> To my knowledge, the path object will always store paths in its own
> internal format, which uses front slashes as directory separators. More
> info on this is in the boost::filesystem documentation.
>
> The basic_path::file_string() method returns the path in the operating
> system native format, if I'm not mistaken.
>
> Regards,
> Markus.
>
>
> Robert Dailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I create the following object:
> >
> > boost::filesystem::path mypath( "SomeFolder/OnWindows/SubFolder" );
> >
> > In Microsoft Windows, the standard slash direction is "\", so when I
> > run the above in the debugger, I notice m_path is still using forward
> > slashes ("/"). I would have expected the slashes to be normalized. Am
> > I misunderstanding something? How can I construct a path object like
> > above and have it normalize the slashes? Thanks.
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