hi all, is there a boost::filesystem equivalent of python's os.path.expanduser? something that returns "/home/tim/myfancypath" from the path "~/myfancypath"? thanks in advance, tim -- tim@klingt.org ICQ: 96771783 http://tim.klingt.org Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. William S. Burroughs