From my application there may come a time when I want to take a directory or file name from a user. In windows, there is a file selection box that can return the full path of a file that the user chooses. The full path in windows includes the drive name with a colon and then a backslash ( c:\ ). I can not seem to get the boost filesystem library to accept this as a valid
Hello, path even with the native checker. I also ran the test provided with boost for paths and it failed. The output is given below. $ bfs Platform is Windows initial_path().string() is "g:/boostfs" initial_path().native_file_string() is "g:\boostfs" d:/srcbuilds/boost_1_32_0/boost/test/minimal.hpp(129): exception "std::exception : boost::filesystem::path: invalid name "c:" in path: "c:/"" caught in function: 'int main(int, char**)' **** Testing aborted. **** 1 error detected It appears that the colon is in the list of invalid characters for a file and it is throwing things off. My version of Boost was compiled with MinGW under Windows XP SP2 using the command line bjam "-sTOOLS=mingw" stage If I am missing something please let me know. Thank you for your time, - Dave