Re: [Boost-users] boost::filesystem::native

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost::filesystem::native
From: Christopher J. Pisz (cpisz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-11-10 17:50:15

On 11/10/2016 4:25 PM, Fernando Gomes da Silva wrote:
SNIP
>     That's especially weird considering that "\P" should be an invalid
>     escape sequence, which should give you a compiler warning/error
>     and/or should make "\PATH" give identical results to "\\PATH".
>
>     Unless you further escaped these before compiling it?

That is wierd. It seems to be an error on rebuild. Disregard those 
results I guess. I don't know how I got it to run.

Here is another test I just tried, making this set of boost functions 
and thier documentation appear even more confusing to me.

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>

#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>

// Just a garbage console application to do some manual testing.
int main()
{
     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native("C://PATH") << std::endl;
     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native("C:/PATH")  << std::endl;
     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native("C:\\PATH") << std::endl;
     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native("\\PATH")   << std::endl;
     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native("/PATH")    << std::endl;
     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native("//PATH")   << std::endl << 
std::endl;

     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native(reinterpret_cast<char 
*>(L"C://PATH")) << std::endl;
     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native(reinterpret_cast<char 
*>(L"C:/PATH"))  << std::endl;
     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native(reinterpret_cast<char 
*>(L"C:\\PATH")) << std::endl;
     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native(reinterpret_cast<char 
*>(L"\\PATH"))   << std::endl;
     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native(reinterpret_cast<char 
*>(L"/PATH"))    << std::endl;
     std::cout << boost::filesystem::native(reinterpret_cast<char 
*>(L"//PATH"))   << std::endl;

     return 0;
}

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