Appending to boost::filesystem::path

I have a certain boost::filesystem::path in hand and I'd like to append a string (or path) to it.

boost::filesystem::path p("c:\\dir");
p.append(".foo"); // should result in p pointing to c:\dir.foo

The only overload boost::filesystem::path has of append wants two InputIterators.

My solution so far is to do the following:

boost::filesystem::path p2(std::string(p.string()).append(".foo开发者_高级运维"));

Am I missing something?

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If it's really just the file name extension you want to change then you are probably better off writing:

p.replace_extension(".foo");

for most other file path operations you can use the operators /= and / allowing to concatenate parts of a name. For instance

boost::filesystem::path p("c:\\dir");
p /= "subdir";

will refer to c:\dir\subdir.

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>


int main() {
  boost::filesystem::path p (__FILE__);

  std::string new_filename = p.leaf() + ".foo";
  p.remove_leaf() /= new_filename;
  std::cout << p << '\n';

  return 0;
}

Tested with 1.37, but leaf and remove_leaf are also documented in 1.35. You'll need to test whether the last component of p is a filename first, if it might not be.

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With Version 3 of Filesytem library (Boost 1.55.0) it's as easy as just

boost::filesystem::path p("one_path");
p += "_and_another_one";

resulting in p = "one_path_and_another_one".

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You can define the + operator yourself such that you can add two boost::filesystem::path variables.

inline boost::filesystem::path operator+(boost::filesystem::path left, boost::filesystem::path right){return boost::filesystem::path(left)+=right;}

Then you can even add a std::string variable (implicit conversion). This is similar to the definition of the operator/ from

include/boost/filesystem/path.hpp:

inline path operator/(const path& lhs, const path& rhs)  { return path(lhs) /= rhs; }

Here is a working example:

main.cpp:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>

using namespace boost::filesystem;
inline path operator+(path left, path right){return path(left)+=right;}

int main() {
  path p1 = "/base/path";
  path p2 = "/add/this";
  std::string extension=".ext";
  std::cout << p1+p2+extension << '\n';
  return 0;
}

compiled with

g++ main.cpp -lboost_system -lboost_filesystem

produces the output:

$ ./a.out 
"/base/path/add/this.ext"

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path p;
std::string st = "yoo";
p /= st + ".foo";

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sample code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <boost/dll.hpp>
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>

int main()
{
    boost::filesystem::path my_path("/usr/development");
    my_path /= "ControllerApp";
    std::string l1_path = my_path.string();
    std::cout << "initial path: " << l1_path << std::endl;
    my_path = my_path / boost::filesystem::path("Script") / boost::filesystem::path("latest");
    std::cout << "final path: " << my_path.string() << std::endl;
}

output:

initial path: /usr/development/ControllerApp

final path: /usr/development/ControllerApp/Script/latest

you can either append a directory to the path by using concatenation operator "/=". or using "/" you can append multiple directories to the path. and this is the easiest platform independent path combine/append/concatenation mechanism provided by Boost Filesystem.