Re: [Boost-users] [filesystem] Can't create absolute paths from stringson windows

25 Apr 2007

      I read this in the boost docs:

Rationale: It is not considered an error for rhs to include a root-directory 
because m_name might be relative or empty, and thus it is valid for rhs to 
supply root-directory.  For example, on Windows, the following must succeed:

path p( "c:", native );
p /= "/foo";
assert( p.string() == "c:/foo" );

So I tried the code and the first line blew up:
boost::filesystem::path: invalid name "c:" in path: "c:"

Thanks

"Ken Klose"  wrote in message 
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cout << "init path " << initial_path().string() << endl;
cout << "init path exists " << exists(initial_path()) << endl;
prints:
init path C:/Documents and Settings/me/workspace/3.2/DciApiTest
init path exists 1
But if I try to construct the same path from a string: I get:
path init_path2(initial_path().string(), no_check);   // I've also tried 
'native' checker
 cout << "init path 2 " << init_path2.string() << endl;
 cout << "init path 2 exists " << exists(init_path2) << endl;
I get:
init path 2 C:Documents and Settings/ken.klose/workspace/3.2/DciApiTest
init path 2 exists 0
The / after the : gets lost and therefore the file isn't found.
Thanks in advance!
BTW: Using MinGW.