That would definitely be very good if it could be added for the next major version of Boost. It would be a relatively simple addition. The file_iterator from Regex/v4 would need a few minor modifications to match the style of directory_iterator from Boost.FileSystem. Or, in all honesty, the directory_iterator from Boost.Filesystem is very close, except that the code that takes action based on the assumption that it's a directory path adds '/*' to the end. If the directory_iterator was configurable or there was a version (perhaps called file_iterator) that didn't append '/*' to the end of the directory lookup, then it would serve this purpose. Thanks, Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of John Maddock Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 4:53 AM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.FileSystem] File or Wildcards in Path? How-to do this? Lawrence Spector wrote:
Correct. That is the issue. It's not just wildcards, it also seems that directory_iterator won't handle a single file either (e.g.: C:\config.sys). The file_iterator in regex just seems like it's in the wrong place. I also think this is common functionality that one can't reasonably be expected to know exists without deep digging (my coworker found it by suspecting that it would likely call FindFirstFileA in its implementation and searching on that).
Also, the file_iterator in regex doesn't seem to precisely follow the directory_iterator's style. For example, you can't pass a boost::filesystem::path object to the file_iterator. Another issue is that there's no wide version of the file_iterator.
I do think this needs some cleaning up, if for no other reason than it seems inconsistent.
Well it's a common enough task that we really should do something about it: the file-iterators in Boost.Regex are old pre-boost code used in a now-deprecated part of the regex lib. I guess what we really need is a new library submission built on top of Boost.Filesystem. Any takers? John. _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users