Hi Beman,
"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> wrote in message news:6.0.3.0.2.20041111114438.028c55d8@mailhost.esva.net... | I'm currently working on a major revision of the Boost filesystem
At 01:46 PM 11/11/2004, Thorsten Ottosen wrote: library
| aimed at getting it ready to be proposed to the C++ committee for the next | Library TR.
I have a few requests:
1. there should be a really easy way to iterate over a directory in a recursive fashion; possibly with the chioce of doing DFS or BFS. I know we have discussed this before, but I feel it is so commonly used that it should be supported.
2. there should be a functions like this:
template< class Seq > Seq load_file( const std::string& );
template< class Seq > Seq load_file( const path& );
which would permit stuff like
std::string s = load_file<std::string>( "foo.txt" );
A naive implementation would simply do Seq seq( iter, iter ); return seq; but the idea is of course that faster methods like mem-mapping could be used.
AFAICS, those functions can be built on top of the existing filesystem functionality. Thus they are lower priority for me than internationalization. But, yes, they would be useful, and I have often had to hand-coded both recursion and bulk load/save. That's the point of the convenience header; to be able to have at hand convenient functionality built on top of the library's core functionality. --Beman