Excellent, thanks, that helped. Is that an acceptable method to do this? (using boost::filesystem::native) Or are there other preferred methods of setting up path objects? Graham On 4/17/07, Rush Manbert <rush@manbert.com> wrote:
Graham Reitz wrote:
Why does the following path initialization throw this?
"boost::filesystem::path: invalid name "c:" in path: "c:/dev/Sandbox/file_system/ textfile1.txt"
How do you set paths that should work on windows and linux without avoiding this issue? Since linux doesn't have drive like C: D: and etc?
try { // Is this not an appropriate method to initialize path objects? path text_file(current_path().string() + "/textfile1.txt");
if (exists(text_file)) { cout << file_size(text_file) << endl; } } catch (const filesystem_error& e) { cout << e.what() << endl; }
I am running this under windows.
I think you need to use the native name checker like this:
path text_file(current_path().string() + "/textfile1.txt", boost::filesystem::native);
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