[Boost-users] [filesystem] is_directory on root throws

24 May 2007

      I'm iterating through a directory on windows (c:\) and it is throwing an
exception saying the file isn't found when I call is_directory on it.

Here is my code

        filesystem::path boostdir("c:\\");

        // -- make sure the path exists

        if(!filesystem::exists(boostdir)) {

            // .. error handle

        }

        // -- make sure its a directory

        if(!filesystem::is_directory(boostdir)) {

            // .. error handle

        }

        filesystem::directory_iterator enditr; 

        for(filesystem::directory_iterator itr(boostdir); itr != enditr;
++itr ) {

            if(filesystem::is_directory(*itr))

                // .. code

        }

filesystem::is_directory(*itr) throws with

m_what = "boost::filesystem::is_directory:
"c:8f876d52712ede0273c42e26d4af6847": The system cannot find the file
specified." 

I checked and verified the folder does exist, I'm guessing the problem
is that the directory is in the format c:folder instead of c:\folder.

Thanks,

David

[Boost-users] [filesystem] is_directory on root throws

David Neubelt