Re: [Boost-users] help with filesystem

Richard Dingwall <rdingwall@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2/2/07, Polder, Matthew J <matthew.j.polder@lmco.com> wrote:

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(...) The following works:

std::string t = "h:\\temp"; boost::filesystem::path p(t, boost::filesystem::native);

but I can't get filesystem to work with the string "h:/temp";

std::string s = p.string(); // s = "h:/temp"

h:/temp doesn't work in windows explorer either. You're mixing windows drive letters with POSIX path separators!

Try h:\temp instead.

Well, at least on any NT based system I've worked yet h:/temp is synonym with h:\temp. AFAIK on Windows / and \ are mostly equivalent as path separators (I'm not sure about the \\computername syntax, but for local paths / mapped network drives it just works). Best regards, Markus

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