Re: [Boost-users] boost::filesystem path problem under WINDOWS

Hi Jeff, Thanks for the reply. I caught the exception using this code:   try{   create_directory(bundle_path);  }  catch(boost::system::system_error const &e)  {   cerr<,struct boost::filesystem::path_traits> > > >std::exception::what: boost::filesystem::create_directory: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: "E:\doggy" Can you point me what mistake I am doing here?..I believe the syntax of path is correct. ThanksAvanindra --- On Mon, 13/12/10, Jeff Flinn wrote: From: Jeff Flinn Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost::filesystem path problem under WINDOWS To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Date: Monday, 13 December, 2010, 8:33 PM avanindra singh wrote:

Hi,   Here is the code snippet I am using under windows in VS2008.   #define BOOST_WINDOWS_PATH #define BOOST_WINDOWS_API

You shouldn't be manually defining these, and would normally get a compile error...

#include "stdafx.h"

but you probably are configure to use precompiled headers, so anything before stdafx.h is ignored.

#include #include #include <iostream> #include "string" #include "conio.h" #include "vector"   using namespace std; using namespace boost::filesystem;     int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { string _path = "E:\\doggy"; path dir_path(_path.c_str()); vector< pair > _file_jpeg_pair; string full_list_path = _path+"\\" + "list.txt"; string bundle_path_str = _path+"\\" + "bundle"; path bundle_path(_path.c_str()); //creating bundle directory cout<

Catch the unhandled exception and see what the problem is. Filesystem throws boost::system::system_error exceptions.

Strange thing is the Windows path E:\doggy is being printed as E:/doggy, seems like the path is getting converted to POSIX format.

Depending on the boost filesystem version you can ask for native formatted strings. Jeff _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users