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
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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