The source code we will compile is one of the examples for the filesystem library provided by Boost to interact with the filesystem. This library is conveniently cross-platform and abstracts the differences between operating systems and filesystems into a coherent, high-level API. The following example code (path-info.cpp) will accept a path as an argument and print a report about its components to the screen:
#include <iostream>#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>using namespace std;using namespace boost::filesystem;const char *say_what(bool b) { return b ? "true" : "false"; }int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { if (argc < 2) { cout << "Usage: path_info path-element [path-element...]\n" "Composes a path via operator/= from one or ...
