On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Mika Fischer <mika.fischer@zoopnet.de> wrote:
Robert Dailey schrieb:
boost::filesystem::path myPath( "C:/somefolder/somefile" ); myPath += ".txt";
Notice the 2nd line of code. This isn't legal. What is the cleanest way to append an extension to a file path? I don't think /= will work; if I remember correctly it will add "/.txt".
I think you basically have the option of doing:
1) myPath = myPath.branch_path() / (myPath.leaf() + ".txt");
2) string tmp = p.leaf(); p.remove_leaf(); p /= tmp + ".txt";
Both are not really pretty...
Regards, Mika
I figured that would be the approach I would have to take. I'm making best efforts to only append a filename when the extension is present, since as far as I can tell being preemptive like that is the cleanest solution.