Re: [boost] [filesystem] Checking if a file exists within a sepcific directory tree

On 11/06/07, Michael Marcin <mmarcin@method-solutions.com> wrote:

Something like the following would work for me.

is_file_within_directory_tree( "C:\export", "C:\work\anotherfile.txt" ); // returns false is_file_within_directory_tree( "C:\export", "C:\export\blah\myfile.txt" ); // returns true

Is there an easy way to do this with Boost.Filesystem?

Depending what you want, you could do a find for the leaf of the file over a recursive_directory_iterator of the path, or you could see if the iterator range in the path is a prefix of that in the file. ~ Scott McMurray