[Boost-users] [filesystem][Windows][1.34.0] Paths not getting normalized correctly.

1 Jul 2007

      Hi.

   Boost.Filesystem's path::normalize() function does not remove the 
trailing '\\.' element and my guess is that it should.

   I'm using Boost 1.34.0 on Windows XP sp2 with MSVC 7.1.

   Some expected normalization examples:
     '.'            --> '.'
     '\\'           --> '\\'
     'aaa\\..'      --> '.'
     'aaa\\bbb\\..' --> 'aaa'
     'aaa'          --> 'aaa'

   Some unexpected  normalization examples:
     '\\.'              --> '\\.'     (expected '\\' )
     'aaa\\..\\.'       --> '.\\.'    (expected '.'  )
     'aaa\\..\\.\\.'    --> '.\\.'    (expected '.'  )
     'aaa\\..\\.\\.\\.' --> '.\\.'    (expected '.'  )
     'aaa\\bbb\\..\\.'  --> 'aaa\\.'  (expected 'aaa')
     'aaa\\.'           --> 'aaa\\.'  (expected 'aaa')

   Hope this helps...

   Best regards,
     Jurko Gospodnetić